PHYS 295 - Intermediate Special Topics in Physics

Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
Credits: 3

Prerequisite: Vary with topic. Intermediate work in nuclear physics, optics, photonics, condensed matter, complex systems, nanotechnology, astrophysics, computational physics, or other topics according to faculty expertise and student interest. May be repeated for degree credit for a maximum of six credits with permission and if the topics are different.

Winter 2017, PHYS 295-01: Computational Physics (3). Prerequisites: PHYS 111 and 112. Students review and learn computational and modeling techniques commonly used by engineers and scientists in various disciplines. We examine disciplines such as orbital mechanics, spacecraft propulsion, aeronautics, heat transfer, space physics, fluid dynamics, acoustics, plasma physics, gravitational wave astronomy, biophysics and a few others based upon interest. When possible, we match computational results with actual data for comparison and learn techniques such as finite elements and computational discretization of differential equations. MatLab software is used. Keady.