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Course Descriptions

This page lists only Paradigms/Capstones courses.  Please see the Advising Pages for Other Courses, both required and optional, as well as for descriptions of the requirements of specific degree programs.

Information, such as a catalogue description and a syllabus for each course, can be found by clicking on the individual course links below :

Junior Courses Senior Courses
Fall Winter Spring Fall Winter Spring

Symmetries

Vector Fields

Oscillations

Rotations Preface

Quantum Measurements

Waves

Central Forces

Energy & Entropy

Periodic Potentials

Rigid Bodies *

Reference Frames *

Postscript

Classical Mechanics

Mathematical Methods

Electromagnetism

Quantum Mechanics

Statistical Physics

Physical Optics

 

* The Rigid Bodies and Reference Frames Paradigms are currently offered in alternate years. Physics majors should take one in the junior year and one in the senior year.
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