General Physics 2 (PHYS 112), Monday, Wednesday, & Friday 11:00pm - 11:50pm, Haberlin 219
Second part of two-semester General
Physics sequence covering electricity, magnetism, optics, and modern physics.
Course materials online on Moodle at https://learning.holycross.edu/hcmoodle19/
General Physics 1 First part of the two-semester General Physics sequence
covering linear, rotational, oscillatory motions with accociated concepts of acceleration, force, torque, energy, momentum, pressure, etc.
Methods of Physics
Mathematical methods and applications in physics:
differential equations, vector calculus, matrices, complex variables, etc.
Modern Physics Laboratory
Quantum, relativity, and nuclear experiments.
Electromagnetic Theory
Comprehensive theory of static and dynamic electromagnetic phenomena, including Maxwell's equations and special theory of relativity.
Optics
Lectures on theories of how light is emitted, how light travels through media, and how light interacts with matter.
Including geometric optics and wave optics.
Optics Laboratory
Specialized laboratory for physics majors (geometric and physical
optics investigated using lasers).
Thermal Physics
Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics for physics majors
(thermodynamics laws, equation of state, energy and enthopy, Probability and partition functions).
Experimental Solid State Physics
A combined theoretical and experimental course
on solid state physics, including crystallography, electronic energy bands, magnetic materials,
Mössbauer spectroscopy.
Light, Colors and Vision
For non-science majors; this is
a qualitative (non-mathematical) course on the nature and myth of light and color, and the mechanism of vision.
Colors in Nature and the Nature of Colors
Honors Seminar, combining science,
technology, history, art, literature, photography, and film.
