Not open to students with credit for PHYS 316. PHYS 332 Digital Electronics 4 cr. Basic principles of digital electronic devices, including TTL and CMOS logic families, gates, flip-flops, counters, registers, memory devices, displays, D to A and A to D converters, digital instruments, elementary computer interfacing techniques. Capstone course for the major. Under the direction of a faculty member, students engage in independent research.
Research culminates in a paper and formal public seminar.
For physics majors with senior standing. May be repeated once for credit. Theoretical Mechanics 3 cr. Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulation of mechanics with applications, the theory of small oscillations, the theory of wave motion in solids, reflection of waves, and mechanics of continuous fluids. Theoretical Electromagnetism 3 cr.