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PHYS 4993 Senior Honors Thesis Prerequisites: Departmental invitation, senior standing, Honors Program participation. Description: A guided reading and research program ending with an honors thesis under the direction of a faculty member, with second faculty reader and oral examination. Required for graduation with departmental honors in physics. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Physics General Education and other Course Attributes: Honors Credit PHYS 5000 Master’s Thesis Research or Report Prerequisites: Consent of major professor. Description: Thesis research or report for master's degree. Offered for variable credit, 1-9 credit hours, maximum of 9 credit hours. Credit hours: 1-9 Contact hours: Other: 1 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Independent Study Department/School: Physics PHYS 5110 Seminar Prerequisites: Graduate standing in physics. Description: Special topics in physics. Offered for variable credit, 1-5 credit hours, maximum of 20 credit hours. Credit hours: 1-5 Contact hours: Other: 1 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Independent Study Department/School: Physics PHYS 5113 Statistical Thermodynamics and Kinetic Theory Prerequisites: PHYS 3113. Description: Fundamental concepts of thermodynamics: first, second and third laws; thermodynamic potentials. Statistical physics: Maxwell- Boltzman, Fermi-Dirac, Bose-Einstein distribution functions. Kinetic theory: transport phenomena, Boltzman H Theorem, the approach to thermodynamic equilibrium. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture

PHYS 5133 Laser Spectroscopy Prerequisites: PHYS 5163.

Description: Principles of different types of laser spectroscopy based on fluorescence, absorption, saturated absorption, absorption in a cavity: Infrared, Raman, light scattering, four wave mixing, CARS, phase conjugation, two photon absorption, double resonance, and multiphoton ionization. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Physics PHYS 5163 Lasers Prerequisites: PHYS 4813 or equivalent. Description: Semi-classical description of absorption and emission of light by matter; effects of cavities and optical elements; theory of lasers' gas, liquid, solid state and semiconductor. Electro-optics. Techniques of mode-locking, Q-switching, phase conjugation, Fourier transform optics. An introduction to non-linear optics. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Physics PHYS 5213 Statistical Mechanics Prerequisites: PHYS 5113 and PHYS 5613 or consent of instructor. Description: Classical and quantum mechanical distribution functions for independent particles; interacting classical and quantum systems, superfluidity, phase transitions and critical phenomena, approximation methods. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Physics PHYS 5220 Physics Topics for Teachers Prerequisites: Teaching experience or consent of instructor. Description: Special topics for elementary and secondary science teachers to improve their subject matter competence. Content varies, depending on the needs of specific groups of teachers. Offered for variable credit, 1-6 credit hours, maximum of 6 credit hours. Credit hours: 1-6 Contact hours: Other: 1 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Independent Study

Department/School: Physics PHYS 5123 Geometrical Optics Prerequisites: PHYS 3213 or consent of instructor.

Department/School: Physics PHYS 5263 Particle Physics Prerequisites: PHYS 5613 or consent of instructor.

Description: Foundations of geometrical optics, geometrical theory of optical imaging, geometrical theory of aberrations, image forming instruments. Same course as ECEN 5803. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Physics

Description: Phenomenology of elementary particles: quark model, electromagnetic, weak, and strong interactions of quarks, leptons, and gauge bosons, Feynman diagram techniques, parton model, gauge symmetries, spontaneous symmetry breaking, Standard model, experimental tests. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Physics