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department Physics (X) |
TTh 2.30-3.45 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Sc Permission of instructor required
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M 3.30-5.30 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 37) 12/18/2009 F 2.00 Areas Sc Permission of instructor required Current topics in modern physics, beginning with quantum physics and continuing through subatomic physics, special and general relativity, cosmology, astrophysics, and string theory.
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MWF 11.35-12.25 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 34) 12/17/2009 Th 9.00 Skills QR Areas Sc An introduction to classical physics and to selected topics in modern physics. Emphasis on fundamental principles, with examples of practical applications to medicine and other fields. Fall-term topics include mechanics, thermodynamics, and wave motion. Spring-term topics include electricity and magnetism, optics, and modern physics.
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3 HTBA Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Sc Meets during reading period A variety of individually self-contained experiments are roughly coordinated with the lectures in PHYS 150a, 151b, and 180a, 181b and illustrate and develop physical principles covered in those lectures.
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MWF 11.35-12.25 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 34) 12/17/2009 Th 9.00 Skills QR Areas Sc A broad introduction to classical and modern physics for students who have some previous preparation in physics and mathematics. Fall-term topics include Newtonian mechanics, gravitation, waves, and thermodynamics. Spring-term topics include electromagnetism, optics, special relativity, and quantum physics.
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MW 11.35-12.50 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 34) 12/17/2009 Th 9.00 Skills QR Areas Sc A thorough introduction to the principles and methods of physics for students who have good preparation in physics and mathematics. Emphasis on problem solving and quantitative reasoning. Fall-term topics include Newtonian mechanics, special relativity, gravitation, thermodynamics, and waves. Spring-term topics include electromagnetism, geometrical and physical optics, and elements of quantum mechanics.
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3 HTBA Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Sc Meets during reading period A two-term sequence of experiments in classical and modern physics for students who plan to major in Physics. In the first term, the basic principles of mechanics, electricity, and magnetism are illustrated in experiments designed to make use of computer data handling and teach error analysis. In the second term, students plan and carry out experiments illustrating aspects of wave and quantum phenomena and of atomic, solid state, and nuclear physics using modern instrumentation.
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3 HTBA Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Sc Meets during reading period A two-term sequence of experiments in classical and modern physics for students who plan to major in Physics. In the first term, the basic principles of mechanics, electricity, and magnetism are illustrated in experiments designed to make use of computer data handling and teach error analysis. In the second term, students plan and carry out experiments illustrating aspects of wave and quantum phenomena and of atomic, solid state, and nuclear physics using modern instrumentation.
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MW 11.35-12.50 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 34) 12/17/2009 Th 9.00 Skills QR Areas Sc Permission of instructor required The major branches of physics - classical and relativistic dynamics, gravitation, electromagnetism, heat and thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, quantum physics - at a sophisticated level. For students majoring in the physical sciences, Mathematics, and Philosophy who have excellent training in and a flair for mathematical methods and quantitative analysis.
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MW 1.00-2.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Skills QR Areas Sc Meets during reading period The acquisition and analysis of astrophysical data, including the design and use of ground- and space-based telescopes, computational manipulation of digitized images and spectra, and confrontation of data with theoretical models. Examples taken from current research at Yale and elsewhere.
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TTh 11.35-12.50 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 24) 12/15/2009 T 9.00 Skills QR Topics include multivariable calculus, linear algebra, complex variables, vector calculus, and differential equations. Designed to give accelerated access to 400-level courses by providing, in one term, the essential background in mathematical methods.
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TTh 2.30-3.45 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 27) 12/17/2009 Th 2.00 Skills QR Areas Sc An introduction to the physics of biological structures and life processes, and to the burgeoning field of biological physics. Related concepts from probability theory and statistical physics are developed as needed.
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MW 11.35-12.50 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 34) 12/17/2009 Th 9.00 Skills QR Areas Sc The first term of a two-term sequence in advanced physics as the field developed from the time of Newton to the age of Einstein. Topics include mechanics, electricity and magnetism, statistical physics, and thermodynamics. The development of classical physics into a 'mature' scientific discipline, an idea that was subsequently shaken to the core by the revolutionary discoveries of quantum physics and relativity.
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MW 11.35-12.50 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 34) 12/17/2009 Th 9.00 Skills QR Areas Sc An advanced treatment of mechanics, with a focus on the methods of Lagrange and Hamilton. Lectures and problems address the mechanics of particles, systems of particles, and rigid bodies, as well as free and forced oscillations. Introduction to chaos and special relativity.
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MWF 10.30-11.20 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 33) 12/18/2009 F 9.00 Skills QR Areas Sc An introduction to the laws of thermodynamics and their theoretical explanation by statistical mechanics. Applications to gases, solids, phase equilibrium, chemical equilibrium, and boson and fermion systems.
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TTh 2.30-3.45 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 27) 12/17/2009 Th 2.00 Skills QR Areas Sc The basic concepts and techniques of quantum mechanics essential for solid-state physics and quantum electronics. Topics include the Schrödinger treatment of the harmonic oscillator, atoms and molecules and tunneling, matrix methods, and perturbation theory.
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MWF 11.35-12.25 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 34) 12/17/2009 Th 9.00 Skills QR Areas Sc Continuation of PHYS 440b.
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TTh 1.00-2.15 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 26) 12/15/2009 T 2.00 Skills QR Areas Sc The first term of a two-term sequence covering the principles underlying the electrical, thermal, magnetic, and optical properties of solids, including crystal structure, phonons, energy bands, semiconductors, Fermi surfaces, magnetic resonances, phase transitions, dielectrics, magnetic materials, and superconductors.
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TTh 11.35-12.50 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 24) 12/15/2009 T 9.00 Skills QR Areas Sc Introduction to the principles of optics and electromagnetic wave phenomena with applications to microscopy, optical fibers, laser spectroscopy, and nanostructure physics. Topics include propagation of light, reflection and refraction, guiding light, polarization, interference, diffraction, scattering, Fourier optics, and optical coherence.
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MW 9.00-10.15 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 32) 12/12/2009 S 9.00 Skills QR Survey of mathematical techniques useful in physics. Physical examples illustrate vector and tensor analysis, group theory, complex analysis (residue calculus, method of steepest descent), differential equations and Green?s functions, and selected advanced topics.
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1 HTBA Fall 2009 No regular final examination Permission of instructor required Meets during reading period Each student works on an independent project under the supervision of a member of the faculty or research staff. Students participate in a series of seminar meetings in which they present a talk on their project or research related to it. A written report is also submitted. For students with a strong background in Physics course work.
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PHYS 500 01 (11182) TTh 11.35-12.50 Fall 2009 Newtonian dynamics, Lagrangian dynamics, and Hamiltonian dynamics. Rigid bodies and Euler equations. Oscillations and eigenvalue equations. Classical chaos. Introduction to dynamics of continuous systems.
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PHYS 506 01 (11183) /PHYS460 MW 9.00-10.15 Fall 2009 Survey of mathematical techniques useful in physics. Includes vector and tensor analysis, group theory, complex analysis (residue calculus, method of steepest descent), differential equations and Green's functions, and selected advanced topics.
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PHYS 508 01 (11184) MW 11.35-12.50 Fall 2009 The principles of quantum mechanics with application to simple systems. Canonical formalism, solutions of Schrödinger's equation, angular momentum, and spin.
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PHYS 517 01 (10590) /MB&B517/ENAS517 Th 7.00-9.00p Fall 2009 This half-term IGPPEB class is intended to introduce students to integrated approaches to research. Each session is led by faculty with complementary expertise and discusses papers that use different approaches to the same topic (for example, physical and biological or experiment and theory). Counts as 0.5 credit toward MB&B graduate course requirements.
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