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Courses in blue require minimal prerequisites and are primarily intended for non-science students. For course descriptions, see the bulletins for physics and for astronomy.
Physics
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PHY 112
Light, Color, Vision
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Weinacht | Weinacht | Weinacht | Graf | ||||||
PHY 113
Physics of Sports
PHY 115 Lab
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Jung Jung |
Jung Jung |
Jung Jung |
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PHY 119
Physics for Environmental Studies
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Graf | Graf | Graf | Graf | ||||||
PHY 121
Physics for Life Sciences I
PHY 121 Lab
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Piacquadio &
Rijssenbeek (90)
Lefferts
Hemmick (69)
Rijssenbeek (90)
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Tsybychev Wilking Pascuzzi Lefferts Hemmick Pascuzzi |
Stephens Wilking Lefferts Hemmick |
Stephens Wilking Lefferts Wilking |
Hobbs,Wilking Rijssenbeek Lefferts Rijssenbeek |
Pascuzzi Lefferts |
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PHY 122
Physics for Life Sci. II
PHY 122 Lab
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Pascuzzi (studio)
Ionas,
Tsybychev,
Pascuzzi
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Stephens Lefferts Hemmick |
Stephens Kelly Lefferts Kelly |
Gurvitch Kelly Lefferts Kelly |
Hobbs,Wilking Rijssenbeek Lefferts Rijssenbeek |
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PHY 125
Classical Physics A
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Rijssenbeek, Gurvich
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Mendez | Pascuzzi | Mendez | Gurvitch | Gurvitch | Koch | Gurvitch | Vafei-Najafabadi | ||
PHY 126
Classical Physics B
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Graf | Graf | Graf | Koch | Graf | ||||||
PHY 127
Classical Physics C
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Mendez | Du | Graf | Lee | ||||||
PHY 131
Classical Physics I
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Ionas (01)
Hemmick (69)
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Ionas Hemmick Pascuzzi |
Tsybychev | Ionas Hemmick Pascuzzi |
Tsybychev | Graf Hemmick Pascuzzi |
Pascuzzi | Hemmick | Koch | ||
PHY 133
Classical Physics Lab 1
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Lefferts
Hemmick (69)
Pascuzzi (90)
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Hemmick
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Lefferts Hemmick Pascuzzi |
Lefferts Hemmick |
Lefferts Hemmick |
Lefferts | Lefferts Hemmick Pascuzzi |
Lefferts | Lefferts Hemmick Pascuzzi |
Lefferts | |
PHY 132
Classical Physics II
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Ionas (01), Hemmick (69), Pascuzzi (90, addl. info) |
Hemmick
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Rijssenbeek McCarthy |
Ionas Hemmick |
Hobbs | Ionas Hemmick Pascuzzi |
Hobbs | Hemmick,Hobbs Mihaly |
Koch | McGrew Hemmick Mihaly |
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PHY 134
Classical Physics Lab II
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Lefferts
Hemmick
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Hemmick
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Lefferts Hemmick |
Lefferts Hemmick |
Lefferts Hemmick |
Lefferts Hemmick Pascuzzi |
Lefferts | Lefferts Hemmick,Hobbs Mihaly |
Lefferts | Lefferts Hemmick Mihaly |
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PHY 141
Classical Physics I Honors
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Fernandez-Serra | Fernandez-Serra |
Rijssenbeek | Rijssenbeek | Kumar | ||||||
PHY 142
Classical Physics II Honors
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Fernadez-Serra | Liu | Rijssenbeek | Rijssenbeek | Rijssenbeek | Kumar | |||||
PHY 153
Data Analysis for Phys. & Astr. with Python
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Kiryluk | Kiryluk | Kiryluk | Kiryluk | Kiryluk | Kiryluk | Kiryluk | Kiryluk | Kiryluk | ||
PHY 191
Transitional Study
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Schneble | Schneble | Schneble | McCarthy | McCarthy | McCarthy | McCarthy | McCarthy | McCarthy | McCarthy | McCarthy |
PHY 231
Physics for
Future Presidents |
Deshpande | Deshpande | Deshpande | Deshpande | Deshpande | ||||||
PHY 237/ATM 237
World Climate and Atmosphere
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Hameed | Hameed | Hameed | Black | Black | Black | |||||
PHY 251
Modern Physics
PHY 252 Lab
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Mihaly
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Mihaly Mihaly |
Mihaly Mihaly |
Mihaly Mihaly |
Mihaly Mihaly |
Mihaly TBA |
Wei Dawber |
Piacquadio Dawber |
Wei Dawber |
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PHY 277 Computation for Physics and Astronomy
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Swesty | Swesty | Swesty | Swesty | Dreyer | Swesty | Dreyer | Swesty | Dreyer | Swesty | Swesty |
PHY 287 Introduction to Research
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PHY faculty | PHY faculty | PHY faculty | McCarthy | McCarthy | McCarthy | McCarthy | McCarthy | McCarthy | McCarthy | McCarthy |
PHY 291 Transitional Study
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Schneble | Schneble | Schneble | McCarthy | McCarthy | McCarthy | McCarthy | McCarthy | McCarthy | McCarthy | McCarthy |
PHY 300
Waves and Optics
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Weinacht | Weinacht | Metcalf | Allison | Metcalf | Allison | Schneble | Allison | Schneble | Weinacht | Weinacht |
PHY 301 Electromagnetic Theory I
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Vafaei-Najafabadi | Navid VafeiNajafabadi |
Dedushenko Omori |
Vafei-Najafabadi | Vafei-Najafabadi | ||||||
PHY 302 Electromagnetic Theory II
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Syritsin | Goldman | Goldman | Loverde | Goldman | Goldman | |||||
PHY 303 Mechanics
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Ionas | Ionas | Ionas | Rocek | Rocek | ||||||
PHY 306
Thermal Physics
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Teaney | Teaney | Shuryak | Shuryak | Shuryak | Fernandez-Serra | |||||
PHY 307
Phys. and Math. Found. of Quantum Mech.
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PHY 308 Quantum Physics
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Perez Rios | Zahed | Zahed | Goldman | Allison | Allison | |||||
PHY 311 Connections in Science
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Piacquadio | Mendez | Misewich/Mendez | ||||||||
PHY 313
Mystery of Matter
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Jung | Jung | Tsybychev | ||||||||
PHY 335 Electronics and Instrumentation Lab
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Bernauer (L01), Gurvitch (L02) | Gurvitch | Bernauer | Gurvitch | Gurvitch | Gurvitch | Bernauer | Du | Bernauer | Du | Du |
PHY 382
The Quantum Moment
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PHY 390
Special Topics
in Physics |
VafeiNajafabadi |
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PHY 405 Advanced Quantum Physics
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Goldman | Zahed | Goldman | Goldman | Goldman | ||||||
PHY 408 Relativity
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Verbaarschot | Syritsin | Shuryak | Goldman | Swesty | Swesty | Swesty | Shuryak | |||
PHY 420
Accelerators
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VafeiNajafabadi | ||||||||||
PHY 431
Nuclear and Particle Physics
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Shuryak | GonzalezGarcia | GonzalezGarcia | GonzalezGarcia | Gonzalez-Garcia |
Gonzalez-Garcia | |||||
PHY 445/ 515
Senior Laboratory
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Drees, Liu, Metcalf, Du |
Drees
Liu
Du
FigueroaBarragan
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Du
McGrew
FigueroaBarragan
Gurvich
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Du FigueroaBarragan McGrew Li |
Du Liu McGrew Schneble |
Liu Du Weinacht McGrew |
McGrew Liu Jones |
FigueroaBarragan Koch Liu McGrew |
FigueroaBarragan Koch Liu McGrew |
FigueroaBarragan Koch Liu McGrew |
FigueroaBarragan Koch Liu Tsybychev |
PHY 447
Tutorial in Adv. Topics
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PHY faculty | PHY faculty | PHY faculty | McCarthy | McCarthy | McCarthy | McCarthy | McCarthy | McCarthy | McCarthy | McCarthy |
PHY 451
Quantum Electronics / AMO physics
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PerezRios | (see PHY556) | (See PHY566) | ||||||||
PHY 452
Atomic Physics and Lasers
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Metcalf | Metcalf | Metcalf | Metcalf | Metcalf | ||||||
PHY459 Write effectively
by arrangement (or with PHY445)
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PHY faculty Schneble | PHY faculty Schneble |
PHY faculty
McCarthy
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PHY faculty McCarthy | PHY faculty McCarthy | PHY faculty McCarthy | PHY faculty McCarthy | PHY faculty McCarthy | PHY faculty McCarthy | ||
PHY 472
Solid State Physics
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Cano | Mihaly | TBA | ||||||||
PHY 475 Teaching practicum by arrangement
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Lefferts McCarthy | Lefferts McCarthy |
Lefferts
McCarthy
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Lefferts McCarthy |
Lefferts McCarthy
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Lefferts McCarthy | Lefferts McCarthy | ||||
PHY 487 Research
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PHY faculty | PHY faculty | PHY faculty | McCarthy | McCarthy | McCarthy | McCarthy | McCarthy | McCarthy | McCarthy | McCarthy |
Astronomy
Astronomy (AST) course
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Spring
2023
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Fall
2022
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Spring 2022
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Fall
2021
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Spring 2021
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Fall
2020
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2019
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AST 100 Astronomy Today |
Sehgal Walter |
Lattimer | Sehgal Zingale |
Lattimer | Farr von der Linden |
Koda Lanzetta |
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AST 101 Introduction to Astronomy |
Sehgal | Koda | Sehgal | Koda | Koda | ||||||
AST 105 Introduction to the Solar System |
Calder | Lanzetta | Perna | Perna | Walter | Lanzetta | |||||
AST 112 Astronomy Lab |
Sehgal | Koda | Sehgal |
Koda | Koda | ||||||
AST 200 Intro to Astronomy Research |
Armitage | Armitage | Armitage | Armitage | Lattimer | Koda | |||||
AST 203 Astronomy |
Calder | Farr | Koda | Lanzetta | Lanzetta | Farr | Lanzetta | Koda | Zingale | Calder | von der Linden |
AST 205 Introduction to Planetary Sciences |
Perna | Perna | Perna | Lanzetta | Lanzetta | ||||||
AST 248 Search for Life in the Universe |
Lattimer | Walter | Lattimer | Walter | Koda | Calder | Lattimer | Walter | Walter | Lattimer | Koda |
AST 287 Introductory Research in Astronomy by arrangement |
Zingale McCarthy |
Zingale McCarthy |
Lattimer McCarthy |
Lattimer McCarthy |
Lattimer McCarthy |
Lattimer McCarthy |
Lattimer McCarthy |
Lattimer McCarthy |
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AST 301 Collisions in the Solar System |
Walter | Walter | Lattimer | ||||||||
AST 341 Stars and Radiation |
Zingale | Zingale | Zingale | ||||||||
AST 346 Galaxies |
Lanzetta | Koda | Lanzetta | ||||||||
AST 347 Cosmology |
Sehgal | Sehgal | |||||||||
AST 389 Science Fiction |
Walter | Walter | Walter | ||||||||
AST 390 Special Topics in Astrophysics |
Zingale | Armitage | Lattimer | Armitage | Lattimer (as PHY390) |
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AST 443 Observational Techniques |
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von der Linden | von der Linden | Walter | von der Linden | von der Linden | ||||
AST 447 Senior Tutorial
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Zingale McCarthy |
Zingale McCarthy |
Lattimer McCarthy |
Lattimer McCarthy |
Lattimer McCarthy |
Lattimer McCarthy |
Lattimer McCarthy |
Lattimer McCarthy |
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AST 459 Write effectively |
AST faculty
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AST faculty Lattimer
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AST faculty Lattimer
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AST faculty Lattimer | AST faculty Lattimer | AST faculty Lattimer | AST faculty Lattimer | AST faculty Lattimer | AST faculty Lattimer | AST faculty Lattimer | |
AST 475 Teaching practicumby arrangement |
Zingale McCarthy |
Zingale McCarthy | Zingale McCarthy | Zingale McCarthy | Zingale McCarthy | Zingale McCarthy | Zingale McCarthy | Zingale McCarthy | |||
AST 487 |
Zingale McCarthy |
Zingale McCarthy |
Lattimer McCarthy |
Lattimer McCarthy |
Lattimer McCarthy |
Lattimer McCarthy |
Lattimer McCarthy |
Lattimer McCarthy |