| Prefix |
Num |
Title |
Credits |
Content Area |
Elective |
| |
| Following courses are for both physics and chemistry majors |
ASTR or
BIOL or
GEOL |
201
101
110 |
The Sun and its Planets Principles of Biology
The Earth and the Planets |
3 |
Overview of solar system. Unity of life at the cellular level.
Origin and nature of earth |
|
PHYS |
121 |
General Physics I - Mechanics |
4 |
Mechanics, thermo, waves |
|
| PHYS |
122 |
General Physics II - Electricity and Magnetism |
4 |
E & M, optics. |
|
| PHYS |
196 |
Energy and Society |
3 |
Societal and technological issues. |
|
| PHYS |
221 |
General Physics III - Modern |
3 |
Atomic, nuclear, radioactivity, relativity, quantum mechanics. |
|
| CHEM |
105 |
Principles of Chemistry I |
3 |
General/inorganic chem. |
|
| CHEM |
106 |
Principles of Chemistry II |
3 |
General/inorganic chem. |
|
| CHEM |
113 |
Principles of Chemistry Lab |
2 |
General/inorganic chem.
Laboratory. |
|
| CHEM |
223 & 224 |
Intro. Organic Chemistry I & II |
3+3 |
Organic chemistry |
|
| CHEM |
323 & 324 |
Introductory Organic Chemistry Lab I & II |
2+2 |
Organic chemistry laboratory. |
|
| PHYS |
331 |
Quantum Mechanics I |
3 |
Introduction to quantum mechanics. |
|
| ENGR |
131 |
Elementary Computer Programming |
3 |
Programming languages: Pascal, C++. |
|
| |
| The following courses are for the chemistry BA students: |
| MATH |
125 |
Mathematics I |
4 |
Calculus. |
|
| MATH |
126 |
Mathematics II |
4 |
Calculus. |
|
| CHEM |
301 |
Physical Chemistry I. |
3 |
Applications of physical chemistry. |
|
| CHEM |
302 |
Physical Chemistry II |
3 |
Continuation of physical chemistry. |
|
| CHEM |
304 |
Chemical Measurements Lab. |
3 |
Quantitative chemical measurements. |
|
| CHEM |
305 |
Physical Chemistry Lab. |
4 |
Characterization of chemical systems. |
|
| PHYS |
310 |
Classical Mechanics |
3 |
Intermediate mechanics. |
|
| PHYS |
324 |
Electricity and Magnetism |
3 |
Advanced electromagnetic theory. |
|
| PHYS |
315 or 316 |
Introduction to Solid State Physics or Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics |
3 |
Crystals, lattices, quantum statistics. Nuclei & particles: expt. and theory. |
X |
| |
| The following courses are for the physics BA students: |
| MATH |
121 |
Calculus for Science and Engineering I |
4 |
Calculus. |
|
| MATH |
122 |
Calculus for Science and Engineering II |
4 |
Calculus. |
|
| MATH |
223 |
Calculus for Science and Engineering III |
3 |
Calculus. |
|
| PHYS |
250 |
Mathematical Methods of Physics |
3 |
Computers for scientific problems. |
|
| PHYS |
309 |
Lab for Physics BA students |
4 |
Electronics; classical and modern experiments. |
|
| CHEM |
301 or 335 |
Introductory Physical Chemistry I or Physical Chemistry I |
3 |
Properties of matter, thermo, equilibrium |
|
| PHYS |
313 |
Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics. |
3 |
Entropy, phase transitions; fermion, boson,_photon_gases. |
|
| PHYS |
351 |
Physics Senior Project |
6 |
Year-long project with Research group. |
|
| |
| Two courses chosen from the following four: |
| PHYS |
310 |
Classical Mechanics |
3 |
Intermediate mechanics. |
X |
| PHYS |
315 |
Introduction to Solid State Physics |
3 |
Crystals, lattices, quantum statistics. |
X |
| PHYS |
316 |
Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics |
3 |
Nuclei & particles: expt and theory. |
X |
| PHYS |
324 |
Electricity and Magnetism |
3 |
Advanced Electromagnetic theory. |
X |
