Course	PHYS 118 A Light and Color
Professor	Burton Brody
CRN	95249
Schedule	Mon Wed 10:30 - 12:30 pm ROSE 108
Distribution	OLD: E/G/Q	NEW: LABORATORY SCIENCE

An introduction to light, optical phenomena, and related devices, including some historical perspective; classical and modern models of light; light and color in nature, and vision; the geometrical optics of lenses, mirrors, and related devices; the physical optics of interference and diffraction; spectroscopy and polarization; lasers, and holography. Without assuming either prior knowledge of physics or heavier mathematics, we will develop models and explore them in intermixed lecture/discussion and experiment/demonstration modes.

Course	PHYS 118 B Light and Color
Professor	Burton Brody
CRN	95250
Schedule	Mon Wed 1:30 -3:30 pm ROSE 108
Distribution	OLD: E/G/Q	NEW: LABORATORY SCIENCE

See description above.

Course	PHYS 141 Introduction to Physics I
Professor	Matthew Deady
CRN	95251
Schedule	Mon W Fr 9:00 - 10:20 am HEG 102 Mon (Lab) 1:30 - 3:30 pm HEG 107 OR Mon (Lab) 4:00 - 6:00 pm HEG 107 OR Tu (Lab) 1:30 – 3:30 pm HEG 107
Distribution	OLD: E/G/Q	NEW: LABORATORY SCIENCE

A calculus-based survey of Physics. This first semester covers topics in mechanics, heat and thermodynamics, and wave motion. The course stresses ideas--the unifying principles and characteristic models of physics. Labs develop the crucial ability to elicit understanding of the physical world.

Corequisite: MATH 141

Course	PHYS 210 Introduction to Electronics
Professor	Burton Brody
CRN	95311
Schedule	Tu 4:00 -6:30 pm HEG 107 Th 1:30 -3:30 pm HEG 107
Distribution	OLD: E/G	NEW: LABORATORY SCIENCE

This course is a survey of analog electronics ending with a brief
introduction to digital electronics. Beginning with Kirchhoff's Laws, voltage dividers and filters, we will proceed to power supplies, amplifiers, oscillators, operational amplifiers, timers, and IC's.  We will employ semiconductor diodes, bipolar and field-effect transistors, and IC's.  We will leave time at the end to explore Boolean algebra and some basic digital electronic functions, ending with construction of a pared down bus-architecture prototype.  The course consists of equal
parts lecture and lab.  Corequisites: at least one physics course and one math course numbered above 140.

Course	PHYS 321 Modern Physics
Professor	Matthew Deady
CRN	95252
Schedule	Tu Th 8:30 - 10:20 am ROSE 108
Distribution	OLD: E/Q	NEW: N/A

A topical course in the development of modern physics from the theory of relativity to quantum mechanics. Relativity, photoelectric effect, X‑ray production and scattering, nuclear transmutation, alpha and beta radiation processes, particles and quasiparticles.

Prerequisites: Physics 141‑142, Mathematics 141-142.

Course	PHYS 323 Methods of Theoretical Physics
Professor	Matthew Deady
CRN	95253
Schedule	Fr 1:30 -3:30 pm HEG 106
Distribution	OLD: E/Q	NEW: N/A

2 credits Mathematical and theoretical methods will be developed to use in advanced physics courses. Fourier series, vector calculus, power series, and other techniques will be used in constructing mathematical models for solving scientific

problems.

Course	PHYS 403 Quantum Mechanics
Professor	Peter Skiff
CRN	95254
Schedule	Wed Fr 10:30 - 11:50 am HEG 201
Distribution	OLD: E/Q	NEW: N/A

Elements of Schrodinger and Heisenberg formulations of quantum mechanics. Potential wells, hydrogen atoms, scattering, harmonic oscillator, perturbation theory, angular momentum. Prerequisite: Physics 321