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• PHYS 2977: Cooperative Education

  1.00 - 3.00 Credits

  Utah State University

  
  Provides supervised on-the-job training in physics. Students meet with the instructor/coordinator periodically during the course to determine and evaluate learning objectives, hours to be worked, and credit agreements.
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• PHYS 2988: Special Problems

  1.00 - 3.00 Credits

  Utah State University

  
  Individual work approved by the instructor. Time and credit to be arranged.
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• PHYS 3010: Space Exploration from Earth to the Solar System (DSC/QI)

  3.00 Credits

  Utah State University

  
  Comparative introduction to the Earth and other planets in our solar system, including geological structure and atmosphere. Emphasis on space exploration methods, including spacecraft and detection instrumentation. Examines latest results of Mars missions, Jupiter and Saturn exploration, etc.
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• PHYS 3020: Great Scientists (DSC)

  3.00 Credits

  Utah State University

  
  Lives and work of men and women responsible for scientific revolution: Maxwell (loved children), Einstein (despised authority), Curie (suffered discrimination against women), Schrodinger (fled from Hitler), Watson and Crick (the DNA story), Feynman (lock picker), Rubin (as a young girl built her own telescope), and others.
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• PHYS 3030: The Universe (DSC/QI)

  3.00 Credits

  Utah State University

  
  Students explore properties and origins of the universe, based on Einstein's theory of gravity. Topics include curved space-time; black holes, white holes, and worm holes; the big bang; multiple universes; and the births of stars, galaxies, heavy atoms, and planets.
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• PHYS 3150: Energy in the Twenty-first Century (DSC/QI)

  3.00 Credits

  Utah State University

  
  This course provides a science-based overview of energy resources. Students analyze energy budgets and energy resources, including solar energy, fossil fuels, nuclear energy, and renewable sources. They contrast carbon emissions and potential impacts on climate change for different energy sources.
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• PHYS 3500: Topics in Physics

  1.00 - 3.00 Credits

  Utah State University

  
  Introduces and explores issues in contemporary physics at an intermediate undergraduate level. Focuses on phenomena and experimental methods.
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• PHYS 3550: Intermediate Classical Mechanics

  3.00 Credits

  Utah State University

  
  Students learn Newtonian mechanics, including dynamics of single and multiple particle systems, conservation laws, harmonic oscillations, central-force motion, rotations, and the two-body problem. Topics may also include advanced topics such as Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics, accelerated reference frames, and chaos.
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• PHYS 3600: Electromagnetism I

  3.00 Credits

  Utah State University

  
  Students learn about electrostatics and magnetostatics, including the response of materials (both conductors and dielectrics) to electric and magnetic fields. Topics include the Maxwell equations, Coulomb's and Biot-Savart laws, scalar and vector potentials, boundary conditions, multipole expansions, and energy.
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• PHYS 3700: Thermal Physics

  3.00 Credits

  Utah State University

  
  Rigorous treatment of laws of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. Concepts of work, temperature, heat, energy, and entropy; and their application to reversible and irreversible processes. Criteria for equilibrium.
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