Courses
PHYS 508
Interaction of electromagnetic radiation with atoms and molecules, rotational spectroscopy, vibrational spectroscopy, electronic spectroscopy, spectroscopic instrumentation, lasers as spectroscopic light sources, fundamentals of lasers, nonlinear optical spectroscopy, laser Raman spectroscopy.
PHYS 505
Selected experiments in physics. Single component and integrated solid state electronic device characteristics and applications in electronic circuits. Use of coherent and incoherent electromagnetic waves in modern physics experiments and contemporary technology applications with transmission, absorption, diffraction, and spectroscopic measurements. Laboratory technique, data recording and analysis, communication of results through written and oral reports.
PHYS 502
Boundary-value problems in electrostatics and magnetostatics. Maxwell's equations. Conservation laws. Electromagnetic waves and wave propagation in different media. Waveguides and resonant cavities. Radiating systems.
PHYS 491
Available to students with a GPA equal to or greater than 3.00 and with consent of the instructor.
PHYS 451
Detailed examination of current topics in Physics.
PHYS 506
Review of Thermodynamics, Classical Statistical Mechanics, Ensemble Theory, Quantum Statistical Mechanics, Fermionic systems, Bosonic systems, Special topics (time permitting): Quantum Thermodynamics, Theory of Phase Transitions.
PHYS 503
Spin. Complex vector spaces. Quantum dynamics. Bound state perturbation theory. Time dependent perturbation theory. Identical particle systems.
PHYS 495
Work on the research proposal resulting from PHYS 390 with the guidance of an instructor, culminating in a research paper suitable for presentation or publication.
PHYS 456
PHYS 437
Basic principles, techniques, and instruments used in biomedical optical research. Scattering, absorption, fluorescence and polarization, and how these properties can be utilized in biomedical diagnostics and imaging. Modelling of light-tissue interactions. Ballistic imaging and microscopy. Optical coherence tomography. Optical biosensors.
PHYS 507
Phase diagrams. Critical phenomena and universal scaling. Mean field and Landau theories. Kadanoff scaling theory. Position space and momentum space renormalization. Chaotic renormalization groups and spin-glass order. Quenched disordered and frustrated systems. Phase diagrams of quantum spin and electronic conductivity models.
PHYS 504
Rotations and angular momentum. Discrete symmetry operations. WKB approximation.
PHYS 501
Variational principles.Lagrange?s equations. 2-body central force problems. Kinematics of rigid body motion. Rigid body equations of motion. Hamilton?s equations. Canonical transformations. Hamilton-Jacobi theory. Small oscillations.
PHYS 490
Work on the research proposal resulting from PHYS 390 with the guidance of an instructor, culminating in a research paper suitable for presentation or publication.
PHYS 450
Detailed examination of current topics in Physics.