Special projects; departmental sponsor required. Prerequisite: one or more 400-level physics courses.

Honors thesis research. Students work on an independent research project under guidance of a faculty member. Full-year course with PHYSICS 499T

Honors thesis research and writing. Full year course with PHYSICS 499Y.

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Special projects in physics. Departmental sponsor required. Prerequisite: one or more 400-level physics courses.

Thermodynamic and statistical descriptions of many particle systems. The laws of thermodynamics. Entropy. Free energies. Macrostates and microstates. Canonical and microcanonical probability distributions. Phase transitions. Application to various systems, including classical and quantum gases, solids. Prerequisites: PHYSICS 284 and MATH 233, or consent of instructor.

Newtonian dynamics and analytic methods. Conservation laws. Oscillatory phenomena including damping and resonance. Central force problems and planetary orbits. Rigid body mechanics. Introduction to the calculus of variation and the principle of least action. Generalized coordinates. Lagrangian and Hamiltonian dynamics. Prerequisites: PHYSICS 151 or 182, MATH 233.

Special projects; departmental sponsor required. Prerequisites: one or more 200-level physics courses.

Special projects; departmental sponsor required. Prerequisite: introductory physics.