• PHYS 2500: Elementary Fluids and Thermal Physics

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): PHYS 2220. Corequisite(s): MATH 2210. Presents a mathematically rigorous introductory description of fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, and heat transfer beyond that presented in PHYS 2210. Presents applications in both physics and engineering.
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• PHYS 2700: Biophysics

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): PHYS 2220, PHYS 2225, and BIOL 1010 or BIOL 1610. Covers the thermodynamics and statistical mechanics of biological systems, the mechanics of biologically important molecules, and the laws of fluid mechanics as applied in biological systems. Uses calculus-based mathematical models to treat specific reactions, particularly those treating biological systems as molecular machines.
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• PHYS 2800: Introduction to Materials Physics

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): PHYS 2220. Covers the atomic structure of materials and their properties, including electronic, thermal, and optical properties. Addresses experimental methods for creating and studying materials, and current topics in materials science including thin films, surface physics, metamaterials, and nanostructured materials.
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• PHYS 295R: Introduction to Independent Research

  1.00 - 3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): PHYS 2210, Departmental Approval. Working under faculty supervision, allows research on a project determined jointly with a faculty member and approved by the department chair. Emphasizes experimental technique, data collection, modeling, and analysis techniques. May be repeated for no more than six hours of elective credit.
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• PHYS 3010: Physics Experiments for Secondary Education

  1.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): PHYS 2210, (MATH 1050 or MATH 1055), MATH 1210, PHYS 2220, MATH 1060, and University Advanced Standing. For secondary education students. Emphasizes physics or chemistry. Addresses pedagogical methods for student physics laboratory exercises and demonstrations. Studies currently available commercial laboratory equipment for teaching physics in a lab setting. Includes ideas and methods for building inexpensive demonstrations and lab exercises. Provides training in safe and effective use of lab equipment.
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• PHYS 3040: Modern Physics for Secondary Education

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): PHYS 2220, MATH 1220, and University Advanced Standing. Addresses topics of special relativity, development of quantum mechanics, physics of the atom, elementary solid state physics, and elementary particle physics.
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• PHYS 3110: Modern Physics I

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): PHYS 2220 and University Advanced Standing. Corequisite(s): PHYS 3115. Addresses topics of error analysis and statistics, wave mechanics, special relativity, development of quantum mechanics, and atomic physics.
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• PHYS 3115: Introduction to Experimental Physics I WE

  2.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): PHYS 2220 and University Advanced Standing. Corequisite(s): PHYS 3110. Introduces selected experiments of classical and modern physics in a laboratory setting. Addresses topics of measurement, error analysis, data analysis, and report writing.
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  This course is a general education course.

• PHYS 3120: Modern Physics II

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): PHYS 3110 and University Advanced Standing. Corequisite(s): PHYS 3125. Covers topics in special and general relativity, and addresses applications of modern quantum mechanics including molecular physics, solid state physics, statistical mechanics, nuclear physics, particle physics, and cosmology.
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• PHYS 3125: Introduction to Experimental Physics II WE

  2.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): PHYS 3110, PHYS 3115, and University Advanced Standing. Pre- or Corequisite(s): PHYS 3120. Introduces selected experiments of classical and modern physics in a laboratory setting. Addresses topics of measurement, data analysis, report writing.
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  This course is a general education course.