PHYS 130 - Wave Motion, Optics, and Sound

3.8 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-3/2)

Geometrical optics, optical instruments, oscillations, waves, sound, interference, diffraction. Prerequisites: Mathematics 30-1, Mathematics 31, Physics 30. Corequisite: MATH 100 or 113 or 114 or 117 or 134 or 144 or equivalent. Restricted to Engineering students. Other students who take this course will receive 3 units.

PHYS 415 - Introduction to Condensed Matter Physics

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

Crystal structure and binding. Lattice vibrations and phonons. Lattice defects and Drude model of transport. Electrons and band structure; metals, insulators, semiconductors. Introduction to superconductors, paramagnetism, diamagnetism, and magnetic ordering. Prerequisites: PHYS 311 and 372, and MA PH 251 or MATH 337 or ECE 341 or equivalent.