Physics majors, pre-engineers and prospective secondary school teachers should complete the sequence. The senior physics courses provide additional course work which is adapted for each physics major. High school mathematics through calculus or currently enrolled in MTH 115. Four Credits Electronics is presented as a research tool. The student is introduced to the basic characteristics of electron tubes and transistors and their use in simple circuits.
Stress is placed on the use of simple circuits as building blocks for more complex instruments.
The course is designed to aid those interested in academic or industrial research in the field of chemistry and biology as well as physics. Four Credits Electrostatics of point charges, DC currents and circuits, magnetic forces, capacitance, laws of Ampere, Faraday, Lenz. Self-inductance, series RLC circuits with sinusoidal currents, electrical instruments. Geometrical optics and optical instruments. The Bohr model of the atom, elementary nuclear topics.