It also guides our understanding of the nucleus and elementary particles. This course examines these discoveries and several applications they produced. Offered Spring Semester. This course, meeting once a week, uses both historical experiments and open-ended investigations with modern instrumentation to examine in detail the important developments covered in Physics 244. This introduction to fundamentals of DC and AC circuit theory and the principles of semiconductor electronics includes detailed studies of bipolar and field-effect transistors and operational amplifiers.
Students attend one laboratory period each week.
This course offers an introduction to the physics of sound waves, the biological, physical, and psychological origins of sound perception, and the synthesis of sounds and sound production in different instruments. Students explore these topics, as well as sound recording and reproduction systems, through lectures, discussions, laboratory experiments and student presentations. No musical experience necessary. In 1945, bombs dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki forever changed the nature of warfare. Assigned readings, daily discussions, and papers deal with these questions.