• 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. Corequisite:    PHYS 3115
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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. Corequisite:    PHYS 3110
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  General Education Course

  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. Corequisite:    PHYS 3125
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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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• PHYS 3230: Principles of Electronics for the Physical Sciences

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): PHYS 2220, MATH 2210, and University Advanced Standing. Introduces electronic measurement instruments commonly used in experimental physics laboratories. Covers principles of electronic measurements using transducers, solid-state devices, circuit analysis, logic circuits, and computers. Includes lab experience. Course lab fee of $45 for materials applies.
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• PHYS 3300: Mathematical Physics

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): PHYS 2220, and University Advanced Standing. Pre- or Corequisite(s): MATH 2210 or instructor consent. MATH 2280 is strongly advised as a pre- or corequisite.. Covers the applications of mathematical tools to experimental and theoretical research in the physical sciences. Introduces problems and systems common to physical science that can be modeled by the application of vector and tensor algebra, curvilinear coordinates, linear algebra, complex variables, Fourier series and transforms, differential and integral equations.
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• PHYS 3310: Advanced Mathematical Physics

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): PHYS 3300 and University Advanced Standing. Explores mathematics as applied to physics. Covers many families of orthogonal polynomials and the special functions of physics, such as the Gamma, Beta, and Error functions. Presents topics in contour integration and applications of conformal mapping. Investigates probability, random processes, statistical analyses, and probability distribution functions.
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