PHYSICS 499
Directed Study
1–3 creditsAdvanced-level mentored research project in physics.
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PHYSICS 681
Senior Honors Thesis
3 creditsMentored individual research and study for students completing Physics Honors in the Major, leading to a senior honors thesis.
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PHYSICS 682
Senior Honors Thesis
3 creditsSenior Honors Thesis course providing mentored individual research and study for students completing Physics Honors in the Major.
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PHYSICS 691
Senior Thesis
2–3 creditsMentored individual research and study for students completing a thesis.
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PHYSICS 692
Senior Thesis
2–3 creditsSenior Thesis in Physics involves mentored individual research and study for students completing a thesis.
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Electrostatics, magnetostatics, Green functions, boundary value problems, macroscopic media, Maxwell's equations, the stress tensor and conservation laws, electromagnetic waves, wave propagation, dispersion, waveguides, radiation, multipole expansions, diffraction and scattering, special relativity, covariance of Maxwell's equations, Lienard-Wiechert potentials, radiation by accelerated charges. Knowledge of electrodynamics (such asPHYSICS 322) strongly encouraged.
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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2021: 3.17 GPA, 39.1% A/AB (n=23 letter grades); Fall 2022: 3.34 GPA, 64.5% A/AB (n=31 letter grades); Spring 2023: 3.17 GPA, 41.7% A/AB (n=12 letter grades).
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026PHYSICS 990
Research
1–12 creditsResearch supervised by individual faculty members. Students formulate and plan original research, creating work that contributes to the field of physics.
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