2014-2016 Undergraduate and Graduate Bulletin (with addenda) 
    
    May 13, 2024  
2014-2016 Undergraduate and Graduate Bulletin (with addenda) [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


A Brief Guide to Course Descriptions

Each program described in this catalog contains detailed descriptions of the courses offered within the program.

The first line gives the official course number for which students must register and the official course title. The letters indicate the discipline of the course and the first number of the official course numbers indicates the level of the course. The levels are as follows:

  • 1XXX - Freshman Level
  • 2XXX - Sophomore Level
  • 3XXX - Junior Level
  • 4XXX - Senior Level
  • 5XXX to 9XXX - Graduate level

Typically the last number of the course number indicates the number of credits. The breakdown of periods of the course is also listed.

When selecting a course for registration, the section of the course may include the following notations:

  • “LEC” - lecture section
  • “RCT” or “RC” - recitation section
  • “LAB” or “LB” - lab section

Additionally, any other letter or digit listed in the section will further identify the section and being liked to another section of the class with the same letter and/or digit combination. Further information on sections is available from academic advisers during registration periods.

The paragraph description briefly indicates the contents and coverage of the course. A detailed course syllabus may be available by request from the office of the offering department.

“Prerequisites” are courses (or their equivalents) that must be completed before registering for the described course. “Co-requisites” are courses taken concurrently with the described course.

The notation “Also listed…” indicates that the course is also given under the number shown. This means that two or more departments or programs sponsor the described course and that students may register under either number, usually the one representing the student’s major program. Classes are jointly delivered.

 

Mechanical Engineering

  
  • ME-GY 9023 Guided Readings II

    3 Credits
    These readings are open to qualified graduate students interested in special advanced topics. Directed study includes analytical work and/or laboratory investigations.

  
  • ME-GY 9033 Guided Readings III

    3 Credits
    These readings are open to qualified graduate students interested in special advanced topics. Directed study includes analytical work and/or laboratory investigations.

  
  • ME-GY 9043 Guided Readings IV

    3 Credits
    These readings are open to qualified graduate students interested in special advanced topics. Directed study includes analytical work and/or laboratory investigations.

  
  • ME-UY 498x Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering

    variable credit Credits
    The course covers topics of special interest in mechanical engineering to promote exposure to traditional and emerging issues in mechanical engineering not covered in the program’s mainstay courses.

    Prerequisite(s): Adviser’s approval.
  
  • ME-UY 1012 Introduction to Mechanical Engineering

    2 Credits
    This course introduces students to the range of mechanical engineering and emphasizes the basic principles and devices for storing and using energy, directing motion and satisfying needs. Case studies look at design issues and related ethical and professional practice issues. Emphasis is on a mindset of exploration. Engineering standards and standard parts. Teams work on and present two design challenges.

    Weekly Lecture Hours: 2 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • ME-UY 2112 Computer Aided Design

    2 Credits
    The course covers sketching, drawing and computer-aided drafting. Topics: Projection theory—multiview, axonometric, oblique. Auxiliaries, sections, isometrics, dimensions, fasteners, detail and assembly drawings. Introduction to blueprint reading. Overview of CIM and CAD integration with other CIM concepts. A design project incorporates developed skills in visualization, drawing techniques, standards and CAD.

    Weekly Lecture Hours: 1 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 3
  
  • ME-UY 2211 Statics Laboratory

    1 Credits
    The course deals with measurement and calculations of bending stress, bending moment, shear forces and deflections in beams, buckling of struts and equilibrium analysis of structures.

    Corequisite(s): ME-UY 2213 .
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 0.5 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 1.5
  
  • ME-UY 2213 Statics

    3 Credits
    The course covers three-dimensional vector treatment of the static equilibrium of particles and rigid bodies. Topics: Equivalent force and couple systems. Distributed force systems. Static analysis of trusses, frames and machines. Friction, impending motion. Methods of virtual work.

    Prerequisite(s): PH-UY 1013  and MA-UY 1024 . Corequisite(s): ME-UY 2211 .
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • ME-UY 3211 Mechanics of Materials Laboratory

    1 Credits
    The course covers measurement of elastic constants for isotropic and anisotropic materials, verification of stress and strain transformation equations, stress concentration concept, unsymmetric bending of beams and torsion of shafts.

    Corequisite(s): ME-UY 3213 .
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 0.5 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 1.5
  
  • ME-UY 3213 Mechanics of Materials

    3 Credits
    The course examines the Concept of Stresses and Strains in two and three dimensions, Stress-strain relationships, Stress transformation, Strain transformation, Axial members, Torsion of shafts, Bending of beams.

    Prerequisite(s): ME-UY 2213 , ME-UY 2813  and MA-UY 2034 . Corequisite(s): ME-UY 3211 .
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • ME-UY 3223 Dynamics

    3 Credits
    The course explores three-dimensional treatment of the kinematics of particles and rigid bodies using various coordinate systems, Newton’s laws, work, energy, impulse, momentum, conservative force fields, impact and rotation and plane motion of rigid bodies.

    Prerequisite(s): MA-UY 2034  and ME-UY 2213 .
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • ME-UY 3233 Machine Design

    3 Credits
    This course introduces students to fundamentals of machine elements, enabling them to employ this knowledge to design machines for various practical applications. The course begins with a brief review of stress, deformation and failure, followed by friction and wear. Subsequently, loaded columns, pressurized cylinders and shafts are presented. Bearings, gears, screws, springs, brakes, clutches and belts are discussed. The course ends with an introduction to MEMS, Micro-Electro Mechanical Systems.

    Prerequisite(s): ME-UY 3213 .
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • ME-UY 3311 Fluid Mechanics Laboratory

    1 Credits
    The course covers fluid mechanics instrumentation and principles, and consists of a set of laboratory experiments designed to reinforce concepts presented in ME-UY 3313 Fluid Mechanics . In addition, this course involves team work, report writing and oral presentations.

    Corequisite(s): ME-UY 3313 .
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 0.5 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 1.5
  
  • ME-UY 3313 Fluid Mechanics

    3 Credits
    This course introduces fluid kinematics, hydrostatics and thermodynamics. Topics: Basic conservation laws in integral form for a control volume. Conservation of mass, momentum, angular momentum and energy for flow. Inviscid flow: Bernoulli’s and Euler’s equations. Viscous flow: flows in pipes and ducts, head loss and friction factor.

    Prerequisite(s): ME-UY 3333 MA-UY 2034  and MA-UY 2114 . Corequisite(s): ME-UY 3311 .
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • ME-UY 3323 Energy Systems

    3 Credits
    This first course in power generation focuses on the analysis and design of energy-conversion systems. It will introduce students to fossil, nuclear and renewable-energy (including wind and solar) power plants with equal emphasis. Students gain a comprehensive and detailed understanding of the fundamentals of such systems and the issues related to their operation from economic, environmental and safety points of view.

    Prerequisite(s): ME-UY 3333 .
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • ME-UY 3333 Thermodynamics

    3 Credits
    The course centers on properties of pure substances; concepts of work and heat; closed and open systems. Topics: Fundamental laws of thermodynamics. Carnot and Clasius statements of the 2nd law; entropy and entropy production; heat engines, refrigerators, heat pumps; efficiencies, coefficients of performance.

    Prerequisite(s): PH-UY 2033 , MA-UY 1124  and MA-UY 2034 .
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • ME-UY 3411 Automatic Control Laboratory

    1 Credits
    The course covers system ID, modeling, identification and control of RC electrical network and a DC servo motor, modeling and control of a maglev system, rotary inverted pendulum and a coupled water tank system.

    Prerequisite(s): ME-UY 3511 . Corequisite(s): ME-UY 3413 .
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 0.5 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 1.5
  
  • ME-UY 3413 Automatic Control

    3 Credits
    The course examines dynamic system modeling, analysis and feedback control design with extensive, hands-on computer simulation. Topics: Modeling and analysis of dynamic systems. Description of interconnected systems via transfer functions and block/signal flow diagrams. System response characterization as transient and steady-state responses and error considerations. Stability of dynamical systems: Routh- Hurwitz criterion and Nyquist criterion. Graphical methods for dynamical system analysis and design: root locus and Bode plot. Computeraided feedback control design for mechanical, aerospace, robotic, thermo-fluid and vibratory systems.

    Prerequisite(s): ME-UY 3513  and ME-UY 3223 . Corequisite(s): ME-UY 3411 .
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • ME-UY 3511 Measurement Systems Laboratory

    1 Credits
    The course covers electric measurements, data acquisition, passive and active filters for signal conditioning, temperature, position, velocity and acceleration measurements.

    Corequisite(s): ME-UY 3513 .
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 0.5 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 1.5
  
  • ME-UY 3513 Measurement Systems

    3 Credits
    The course focuses on electrical circuits and components, filtering, dynamic measurement system response characteristics, analog signal processing, digital representation, data acquisition, sensors. Study of measurement systems via computer simulation.

    Prerequisite(s): MA-UY 2034  and PH-UY 2023  (for Brooklyn Engineering Students) OR MATH-AD 116, MATH-AD 121, and ENGR-AD 119 (for Abu Dhabi Students) Corequisite(s): ME-UY 3511 .
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • ME-UY 3713 Manufacturing Systems I

    3 Credits
    To be successful in the marketplace, a product must meet both customer needs and goals of performance, cost, quality, reliability, safety and the environment. The course addresses issues critical to the design of a product for manufacture and the methods that have been found to be successful in addressing these issues. The design process is studied and illustrated through class exercises and a term project. Selected manufacturing processes are studied. Economic feasibility, entrepreneur- ship and bringing products (and services) to the market are emphasized.

    Prerequisite(s): PH-UY 1013  and MA-UY 1024 .
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • ME-UY 4112 Senior Design I

    2 Credits
    This is the first of two courses dedicated to the capstone design experience in mechanical engineering. In this first course, the students identify and define a project to design, build and test an engineering product or system and complete the preliminary design of their chosen system. The product-realization process, building effective teams and teamwork and communication skills are emphasized.

    Prerequisite(s): ME-UY 2112 , ME-UY 3233  and ME-UY 3313 . Corequisite(s): ME-UY 4214 , ME-UY 4313  and ME-UY 3413 .
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 2 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • ME-UY 4113 Senior Design II

    3 Credits
    This is the second of two courses dedicated to the capstone design experience in mechanical engineering and based on knowledge and skills acquired in earlier course work. Topics: Product design, development, building and testing prototype hardware, with an emphasis on teamwork. The Product Realization Process emphasizes incorporation of engineering standards and realistic constraints. The course concentrates on communication skills.

    Prerequisite(s): ME-UY 4112 .
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • ME-UY 4213 Design and Fabrication of Composite Materials

    3 Credits
    The course introduces composite materials. Topics: Introduction to types of reinforcements and matrix materials. Various applications in mechanical engineering. Manufacturing of polymer, metal and ceramic matrix materials. Analysis of laminated composites for mechanical properties.

    Prerequisite(s): ME-UY 2813 , ME-UY 2811  and ME-UY 3213 .
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • ME-UY 4214 Finite Element Modeling, Design and Analysis

    4 Credits
    The analysis of complex static and dynamic problems involves three steps: selection of a mathematical model; analysis of the model; interpretation of the predicted response. The course deals with deriving analytical solutions and comparing them with Finite Element Analysis results. Students are required to use state-of-the-art commercial software.

    Prerequisite(s): ME-UY 3213 MA-UY 2114  and MA-UY 2034 .
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 3 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • ME-UY 4311 Heat Transfer Laboratory

    1 Credits
    The course covers heat-transfer instrumentation and principles and consists of a set of laboratory experiments designed to reinforce the concepts presented in ME-UY 4313 Heat Transfer . In addition, this course involves team work, report writing and oral presentation.

    Prerequisite(s): ME-UY 3311 . Corequisite(s): ME-UY 4313 .
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 0.5 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 1.5
  
  • ME-UY 4313 Heat Transfer

    3 Credits
    The course introduces modes of conduction, convection and radiation heat transfer. Topics: Analysis of multidimensional geometries for the conduction mode. Unsteady conduction. Numerical methods of analysis. Introduction to convection. Internal and external convection. Natural convection and boiling and condensation. Principles of radiative heat transfer.

    Prerequisite(s): ME-UY 3313 . Corequisite(s): ME-UY 4311 .
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • ME-UY 4353 Internal Combustion Engines

    3 Credits
    The course covers introduction and definitions, engine-operating characteristics. Topics: Thermodynamics of internal combustion engines. Thermodynamics of combustion. Combustion in spark ignition engines. Design for performance and efficiency. Pollutant formation and controls, emissions tests.

    Prerequisite(s): ME-UY 3313  and ME-UY 3333 . Corequisite(s): ME-UY 4313 .
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • ME-UY 4363 Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning

    3 Credits
    This course reviews thermodynamic principles, psychometric chart and psychometric analysis, comfort air conditioning and indoor air quality, heating and cooling system, HVAC system design and equipment selection.

    Prerequisite(s): ME-UY 4313 .
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • ME-UY 4373 Introduction to Nuclear Engineering

    3 Credits
    This is intended to be a required course for the Nuclear Engineering Concentration. It covers three basic areas: (a) reactor kinetics, as it pertains to neutron reaction associated with fissile materials, (b) power reactor systems, i.e. the various types of nuclear reactors in use and their basic operating principles, and (c) design principles for reactors and reactor systems.

    Prerequisite(s): PH-UY 3103 .
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • ME-UY 4383 Introduction to Radiation Physics and Dosimetry

    3 Credits
    Theory and practice of Radiation and Health Physics. Atomic and nuclear structure, X-ray and gamma radiation, interaction of ionizing radiation with matter, and effects of ionizing radiation on living tissue. The course also introduces the principles of radiation detection, radiation measurement, and external and internal dosimetry.

    Prerequisite(s): PH-UY 3103 .
    Also listed under: PH-UY 3503 .
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • ME-UY 4393 Nuclear Power Plant Systems

    3 Credits
    Principles of operation of pressurized and boiling water reactors.  Overall unit and major components of nuclear plants. Reactor and moderator systems.  Reactor control. Heat transfer systems.  Water/steam systems, turbine, and feedwater pumps.  Special safety systems and their operations under transient conditions.  Protection of the public.

    Prerequisite(s): PH-UY 2033  
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3
  
  • ME-UY 4713 Manufacturing Systems II

    3 Credits
    This course continues  . It addresses techniques of manufacturing systems that can be applied to business processes in a variety of industries to address bottlenecks, simulation, economic computations, design process and applications. This course builds from the readings and emphasizes project work. The course depends on effective teamwork and focuses on project work and presentations.

    Prerequisite(s): ME-UY 3713 .
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • ME-UY 4863 Corrosion and Non-Destructive Evaluation of Materials

    3 Credits
    Mechanisms of corrosion and means to prevent corrosion; uniform corrosion, galvanic corrosion, pitting, leaching and corrosion in fresh water; protective coatings, cathodic protection and changes in design and environment to prevent corrosion. Non-destructive testing of materials; Penetrants, Magnetic, Radiography, Eddy Current and Ultrasonic techniques. Materials selection, failure analysis and prevention and design strategies for inspectability.

    Prerequisite(s):  
  
  • ME-UY 4983 Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering

    3 Credits
    The course covers topics of special interest in mechanical engineering to promote exposure to traditional and emerging issues in mechanical engineering not covered in the program’s mainstay courses.
     

    Prerequisite(s): Adviser’s approval.
  
  • ME-UY 4993 BS Thesis in Mechanical Engineering

    3 Credits
    Honors Program students can produce a BS Thesis on a topic of interest to them under faculty advisement. A research project is carried out in traditional and emerging areas of mechanical engineering. The course can be repeated for no more than 6 credits.

    Prerequisite(s): Honors Program status and adviser approval.
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0

Media Studies

  
  • MD-UY 2164/W History and Social Impact of Mass Media Communications

    4 Credits
    This course covers the history and social impact of mass media from Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press until today. The focus is not only on the technological aspects of these media, but also on how their development and later widespread adoption directly and indirectly affected the contemporary socio-cultural environment.

    Prerequisite(s): Completion of first year writing requirements
    Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.

  
  • MD-UY 2214/W Cinema 1895-1950

    4 Credits
    This critical survey of cinema, from the Lumière brothers to the immediate post-World War II period, covers genres including short and feature formats in documentary, drama and animation. Works will be examined in detail, with attention to their place in the development of the form and their cultural and social context.

    Prerequisite(s): Completion of first year writing requirements
    Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.

  
  • MD-UY 2314 Interactive Narrative

    4 Credits
    This course introduces students to the complex relationship between interactivity and storytelling. Students analyze how an interactive structure creates narrative. Works explored in this course range from nonlinear novels, experimental literature, audio narratives, theater/performance to film as narrative databases and games. The study of the structural properties of narratives that experiment with digression, multiple points of view, disruptions of time, space, and storyline is complemented by theoretical texts about authorship/readership, plot/story, and characteristics of interactive media.

    Prerequisite(s): Completion of first year writing requirements
    Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.

  
  • MD-UY 3164/W Critical Studies in Media

    4 Credits
    This course is an introduction to the theoretical discourse used to analyze contemporary media in all of its forms. Students will develop an understanding of the media theories that have had a strong influence on the critical understanding of media over the past 100 years. From Marxism to Postmodernism, students will read original texts, texts that extrapolate from those key works, and general overviews of the field. The texts come from the disciplines of political economy, semiotics, philosophy, media studies, and science fiction. Through class discussions, writing assignments, and creative activities, students’ are expected to demonstrate informed, articulate insights about media and its cultural impact.

    Prerequisite(s): Completion of first year writing requirements

    Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.

  
  • MD-UY 3214/W Cinema 1948-2000

    4 Credits
    This course is a critical survey of cinema from in immediate post-WWII period to 2000. Genres covered will include documentary, comedy, drama and experimental. Works willbe discussed in detail in terms of their place in the development of the form, and in terms of their cultural and social context. Each week, students will view the assigned film before class for details formal analysis and critical context in class. The course will be organized thematically; each week, a selection of alternate films will be offered for additional viewing and essay topics.

    Prerequisite(s): Completion of first year writing requirements, and a 2000-level humanities and social sciences course.
    Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.

  
  • MD-UY 4164/W Critical Studies in Digital Art

    4 Credits
    This course will introduce students to the historical, technological, and philosophical milieu that contextualizes and composes the creative use of digital technology. The course will be (1) delving into the history that is the foundation for our current context, (2) contemplating the theoretical implications for technological cultural production, (3) comparing the differences between analogue and digital art that are sometimes subtle and sometimes blatant, and (4) considering the complexity of defining personal expression in light of the technological, social meshwork that is the digital domain. As a result, digital art will be considered in the context of technological art and its history and implications.

    Prerequisite(s): Completion of first year writing requirements
    Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.

  
  • MD-UY 4911 Special Topics in Media Studies

    1 Credits
    This advanced seminar looks at contemporary developments in media communications from a global perspective. Students are expected to participate actively through presentations on specific subjects and through vigorous seminar discussion and debate.

    Prerequisite(s): MD-UY 3164/W .
    Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.

  
  • MD-UY 4912 Special Topics in Media Studies

    2 Credits
    This advanced seminar looks at contemporary developments in media communications from a global perspective. Students are expected to participate actively through presentations on specific subjects and through vigorous seminar discussion and debate.

    Prerequisite(s): MD-UY 3164/W .
    Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.

  
  • MD-UY 4913 Special Topics in Media Studies

    3 Credits
    This advanced seminar looks at contemporary developments in media communications from a global perspective. Students are expected to participate actively through presentations on specific subjects and through vigorous seminar discussion and debate.

    Prerequisite(s): MD-UY 3164/W .
    Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.

  
  • MD-UY 4914 Special Topics in Media Studies

    4 Credits
    This advanced seminar looks at contemporary developments in media communications from a global perspective. Students are expected to participate actively through presentations on specific subjects and through vigorous seminar discussion and debate.

    Prerequisite(s): MD-UY 3164/W .
    Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.


Music

  
  • MU-UY 2124 Western Music Theory

    4 Credits
    This course, an introduction to the fundamentals of Western music theory, focuses on nomenclature, basic notation literacy and fundamentals of harmony, counterpoint and rhythm. Students complete weekly exercises to learn basic skills in composition and musicianship, including dictation, sight-singing, chord analysis and identification, transposition and voice-leading.

    Prerequisite(s): Completion of first year writing requirements
    Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.

  
  • MU-UY 2214 Non-Western Music Appreciation

    4 Credits
    This analysis-and-discussion course examines the music of non-Western cultures, from the pre-Colonial period through the present day. The course focuses on performance practices, the relationship between music and the arts, the influence of Western music and technology, and hybridity in contemporary popular music. A topical focus on different cultures will look at the musical traditions of the Middle East, North and Sub-Saharan Africa, India and East and Southeast Asia. Students complete regular listening assignments and perform research on musical styles and traditions.

    Prerequisite(s): Completion of first year writing requirements
    Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.

  
  • MU-UY 3134 Music Theory for Songwriters

    4 Credits
    In this introduction to music theory as it applies to songwriting, students compose music and lyrics, building on a practical application of scale, chord and harmony theory. An integral part of the course is an introduction to the craft of poetry as applied to song-lyric writing. Students need free access to a guitar or piano, and some experience on either instrument is preferred. However, neither formal training nor technical proficiency is required.

    Prerequisite(s): Instructor’s permission or MU-UY 2124 .
    Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.

  
  • MU-UY 3144 Music Since 1900

    4 Credits
    This course examines the development of musical instruments from ancient to modern times, looking at the relationship between technology and society as it expresses itself in musical culture. Topics include the development of the “classis” orchestral instrument families (strings, percussion, woodwind, brass), non-Western instrumental evolution (gamelan, Arabic instruments), the impact of industrialization and the rise of electronic and digital technology. Students will perform research on the relationship between technology and performance practice.

    Prerequisite(s): MU-UY 2124 .
    Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.

  
  • MU-UY 3214 The Musical Instrument

    4 Credits
    This course, on the art music of the 20th century, focuses on social and historical trends and their impact on developments in compositional practice, instrumental forms and technology. Topics covered include the role of nationalism in music, the European serialist avant-garde, the New York School, the changing nature of the composer in society, the increasing role of technology and the musical dialogue between art and popular music. Students complete regular listening and writing assignments and are required to attend performances outside of class.

    Prerequisite(s): MU-UY 2124 .
    Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.

  
  • MU-UY 3314 Phonography

    4 Credits
    This course looks critically at the development of recording technology as a catalyst for trends in popular and art music, from the early 20th century to the present. Topics include the rise (and possible fall) of the record industry in the United States, the development of musique concrète and electroacoustic music and the massive impact of recording technology on popular urban, electronic and dance music. Students are encouraged to explore how the artistic practices of sampling, dubbing and remixing have expressed themselves in different genres, scenes and musical styles. The course also looks at current legal, ethical and social issues behind musical copyright and distribution.

    Prerequisite(s): MU-UY 2124 .
    Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.

  
  • MU-UY 4114 Musical Informatics Studio

    4 Credits
    This studio examines how music and sound actually “work,” from the view of mathematics, physics and information theory. This is a music-theory course in reverse. The class looks at the underlying mathematical principles behind harmony, melody, rhythm (and their “scientific” equivalents of frequency, timbre and duration). Using acoustics, instrument design and basic analog and digital-signal theory, students investigate the properties of music from a scientific, engineering and analytic perspective. Students perform research on topics of interest and present their findings semiweekly.

    Prerequisite(s): MU-UY 3XXX or DM-UY 3113 .
    Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.

  
  • MU-UY 4211 Special Topics in Music

    1 Credits
    This variable-credit intensive course, combining music theory and practice, may be repeated for credit under different topics.

    Prerequisite(s): MU-UY 3XXX
    Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.

  
  • MU-UY 4212 Special Topics in Music

    2 Credits
    This variable-credit intensive course, combining music theory and practice, may be repeated for credit under different topics.

    Prerequisite(s): MU-UY 3XXX
    Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.

  
  • MU-UY 4213 Special Topics in Music

    3 Credits
    This variable-credit intensive course, combining music theory and practice, may be repeated for credit under different topics.

    Prerequisite(s): MU-UY 3XXX
    Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.

  
  • MU-UY 4214 Special Topics in Music

    4 Credits
    This variable-credit intensive course, combining music theory and practice, may be repeated for credit under different topics.

    Prerequisite(s): MU-UY 3XXX
    Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.

  
  • MU-UY 4314 Psychoacoustics

    4 Credits
    This course looks at how people hear and listen to sound and music from a physiological, psychological and sociological frame of reference. The class investigates the basics of human hearing and auditory perception and examines how sonic and musical practices and vocabularies evolve based on how people hear. Students perform basic research (including developing simple experiments) and present their findings semiweekly.

    Prerequisite(s): MU-UY 3XX4.
    Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.


Philosophy

  
  • PL-UY 2004 Symbolic Logic

    4 Credits
    This course introduces the methods and applications of propositional logic and relational predicate logic. The course looks at the concept of a formal language and covers semantic and proof-theoretic methods of testing arguments for validity. Semantic concepts of tautology, logical equivalence and consistency are compared with their proof-theoretic counterparts, and the notions of soundness and completeness of proof-theoretic methods are introduced.

    Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.

  
  • PL-UY 2134 Philosophy of Science, Technology and Society in China and India

    4 Credits
    This course addresses the fundamental questions of philosophy-What is real? What is good? How do we know?-by consideringthe answers by classical philosophers from India and China. Philosophy in Asia has not been viewed as an abstract academic subject with little or no relevance to daily life. Rather, it has been seen as one of life’s most basic and important enterprises. Philosophy is seen as essential to overcoming suffering and improving the quality of human life. Since Asian philosophy is concerned with practical issues to a greater extent than in the West, the course considers how technology is understood and valued. Attention is given to the history of science in China and India. Since no rigid distinctions exist between philosophy and religion in Asian thought, the place of science and technology in relation to human values is also different. The class examines the Asian philosophical tradition to understand both its historical importance and its relevance to society today.

    Prerequisite(s): Completion of first year writing requirements
    Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.

  
  • PL-UY 2144 Ethics and Technology

    4 Credits
    This course considers how technology shapes and patterns-and is shaped and patterned by-human activities, from a moral point of view. This course focuses on how the technologically textured world changes human life, individually, socially and culturally, for better or worse. The course considers several views of technology and several ethical theories for evaluating technology. The course explains the structures of change and transformation and develops critical forms of thought, so that students can understand, evaluate, appreciate and criticize technological development.

    Prerequisite(s): Completion of first year writing requirements
    Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.

  
  • PL-UY 2204 Philosophy of Technology

    4 Credits
    This survey of prominent approaches to the philosophy of technology asks: What are the philosophical problems presented by technology? How does technology influence ethics, politics and society? What is the relation of philosophy of technology to the traditional branches of philosophy (aesthetics, epistemology, metaphysics)?

    Prerequisite(s): Completion of first year writing requirements
    Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.

  
  • PL-UY 2254/W Science and Pseudoscience

    4 Credits
    This survey of popular pseudoscientific claims emphasizes issues in the philosophy of science, including demarcation, evidential warrant, scientific progress, science and public policy, and fallacies of reasoning. Topics include UFO sightings and alien abductions, the Nemesis theory of dinosaur extinctions, astrology, creationism, psychic phenomena, theories of intelligence, alternative medicines, global warming and cold fusion. The course emphasizes student input to determine the topics covered.

    Prerequisite(s): Completion of first year writing requirements
    Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.

  
  • PL-UY 2274/W Space and Spacetime

    4 Credits
    What is the nature of space? Is it an independently existing substance, or does it merely consist of the relations between physical objects? Can motion be described simply in terms of the relational properties of objects, or must people always define motion with respect to an absolute motionless substratum? Does the existence of left-handed gloves entail the existence of absolute space? This course considers these and other questions about the nature of space and time as they appear in the writings of philosophers and scientists, including Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Newton, Leibniz, Berkeley, Kant, Poincaré and Einstein.

    Prerequisite(s): Completion of first year writing requirements
    Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciencess elective.

  
  • PL-UY 2294 Quantum Mechanics and Information

    4 Credits
    Quantum mechanics is today the best-confirmed theory of particle dynamics. The theory is not only the basis for all digital technologies, but also the theoretical foundation for the best-confirmed theories of matter (quantum field theories). However, since its inception, quantum mechanics has been beset with conceptual problems. No consensus exists on how to interpret it: What would the world be like if it were true? This course develops the mathematical formalism of the theory and explores several proposals about how to interpret it. Other topics include conceptual issues of quantum teleportation, quantum computing and quantum cryptography.

    Prerequisite(s): Completion of first year writing requirements
    Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.

  
  • PL-UY 3004 Metalogic

    4 Credits
    What is the relation between truth and proof? Are there true statements about natural numbers that cannot, in principle, be proven? Can an algorithm be written to decide which statements about numbers are provable and which are not? What is the mathematical basis of the concept of a mechanically implementable algorithm (i.e., a computer program)? What does all of this have to do with logic? This course addresses these and other questions by investigating the properties of propositional and 1st-order logic. Topics include the soundness and completeness of formal systems of propositional and 1st-order logic, the Löwenheim-Skolem and Compactness theorems for 1st-order logic, Gödel’s incompleteness theorems for formal arithmetic, and Turing machines and the notions of computability and undecidability.

    Prerequisite(s): PL-UY 2004  or permission of the instructor.
    Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.

  
  • PL-UY 3204 Philosophy of Technology: The Critique of Heidegger

    4 Credits
    This course examines, critically and reflectively, the impact, effects and outcomes of technologies upon human activities. The course studies the nature of the technologically textured ecosystem, or techno-system. The course focuses on how technologies change human life, individually, socially and culturally, and considers the effects of human-technology relations on science, culture, democracy and human values. Emphasis is on the position of Heidegger, his predecessors, followers and critics. The course will examines Heidegger’s unusual interpretation of East Asian philosophy in relation to technology. Heidegger claimed to find merit in Eastern thought, and his critique of Western technology is seen in an Eastern philosophical context.

    Prerequisite(s): One level 2 STS cluster course.
    Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.

  
  • PL-UY 3214 The Phenomenon of Life

    4 Credits
    This course offers an existential interpretation of biological facts. The problem of inwardness as examined in modern philosophy is addressed from the standpoint of scientific biology. The course approach is not be limited by the anthropocentric tradition of idealist and existentialist philosophy, nor the materialist standards of natural science. The course explores the great contradictions of human experience-freedom and necessity, autonomy and dependence, self and world, creativity and mortality-through the ascending order of organic powers and functions: metabolism, motility, desiring, sensing and perceiving and on to imagination, art and mind.

    Prerequisite(s): Completion of first year writing requirements  and One level 2 STS cluster course.
    Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.

  
  • PL-UY 3254/W Philosophy of Science

    4 Credits
    The philosophy of science is divided into two subfields: The first studies the nature and methodology of science. The second examines the conceptual and philosophical foundations of particular scientific fields. This course considers topics in the first subfield, including philosophical attempts to describe scientific explanations, laws of nature and the process by which evidence confirms theories in science. The course also considers the nature of scientific theories: what they are, how they change and how they can and should be interpreted.

    Prerequisite(s): One level 2 STS cluster course.
    Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.

  
  • PL-UY 3264/W Physics Information and Computation

    4 Credits
    This course investigates the conceptual foundations of contemporary notions of information and computation from the point of view of physics. The course is divided into four parts: Part I considers the relation between entropy and global concepts of information; Part 2 considers the relation between space-time structure and physical concepts of computation; Part 3 considers the relation between quantum and classical information; and Part 4 considers attempts to reconceive physics entirely in information-theoretic terms.

    Prerequisite(s): One level 2 STS cluster course.
    Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.

  
  • PL-UY 3284/W Relativity and Spacetime

    4 Credits
    The first part of this course develops the physics underlying special relativity and considers such conceptual questions as: Does Special Relativity prohibit faster-than-light travel? Does it allow a traveling astronaut to age less and return home in the distant future? What is the significance of Einstein’s famous equation “E = mc2”? The second part of the course develops the physics underlying general relativity and considers conceptual issues surrounding such current applications as time machines, wormholes and “warp-drive” spacetimes.

    Prerequisite(s): Completion of first year writing requirements
    Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.


Physics

  
  • PH-GY 955X Readings in Applied Physics

    1-4 Credits
    These guided studies courses in physics are supervised by faculty member.

    Prerequisite(s): Graduate Physics advisor approval.
    Note: Course may be repeated for additional credit.

  
  • PH-GY 997X MS Thesis in Applied Physics

    3 Credits
    Independent research project performed under guidance of thesis adviser. Bound thesis volume and oral defense in presence of at least three faculty members. Continuous registration with total 9 credits required.

  
  • PH-GY 999X PhD Dissertation in Applied Physics

    3 Credits
    An original investigation in some branch of physics, which may serve as basis for the MS or PhD degree, is performed under the direction of a member of the department. The number of research credits registered for each semester should realistically reflect the time devoted to research.

    Prerequisite(s): Degree status and graduate advisers and research director’s consent.
  
  • PH-GY 5343 Physical Basis of Nanotechnology

    3 Credits
    This course focuses on the underlying physical basis of nanotechnology. Introduction to nanotechnology, examples of nanoscale systems. Systematics in miniaturization from the mm to the nm scale. Limits to miniaturization. Quantum concepts and elementary Schrodinger theory. Quantum effects in the behavior of chemical matter. Examples of self-assembled nanosystems from nature and from contemporary industrial products.

    Prerequisite(s): PH-UY 2033 .
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • PH-GY 5443 Physical Techniques and Applications of Nanotechnology

    3 Credits
    This course focuses on physical techniques and applications of nanotechnology. Scanning probe microscopes for observation and fabrication. Photolithographic methods of patterning, deposition techniques. Dense memory based on arrays of cantilevers. Magnetic Tunnel Junctions as elements of magnetic disc memory read heads and in Magnetic Random Access Memory. Nanoscale highelectric- field devices. Nanoscale confinement techniques and devices. Applications of carbon nanotubes and semiconductor nanowires. Assembly methods for nanoscale objects.

    Prerequisite(s): PH-UY 2033 .
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • PH-GY 5473 Modern Optics

    3 Credits
    The course covers the physics of optics, using both classical and semi-classical descriptions. Topics include the classical and quantum interactions of light with matter. Diffraction of waves and wave packets by obstacles. Fourier transform optics, holography, Fourier transform spectroscopy. Coherence and quantum aspects of light. Geometrical optics. Matrix optics. Crystal optics. Introduction to electro-optics and nonlinear optics.

    Prerequisite(s): MA-UY 2122  and PH-UY 3234  or equivalents.
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • PH-GY 5481 Modern Optics Lab

    1 Credits
    The modern optics laboratory includes experimental investigations into laser modes, velocity of light by time-of-flight, Fourier optics, holography, Fourier transform spectroscopy, crystal optics and nonlinear optics.

    Pre/Co-requisite: PH-GY 5473  or equivalent.
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 0 | Weekly Lab Hours: 3 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • PH-GY 5493 Physics of Nanoelectronics

    3 Credits
    This course covers limits to the ongoing miniaturization (Moore’s Law) of the successful silicon-device technology imposed by physical limitations of energy dissipation, quantum tunneling and discrete quantum electron states. Quantum physical concepts and elementary Schrodinger theory. Conductance quantum and magnetic flux quantum. Alternative physical concepts appropriate for devices of size scales of 1 to 10 nanometers, emphasizing role of power dissipation. Tunnel diode, resonant tunnel diode, electron wave transistor; spin valve, tunnel valve, magnetic disk and random access memory; single electron transistor, molecular crossbar latch, quantum cellular automata including molecular and magnetic realizations. Josephson junction and “rapid single flux quantum” computation. Photo- and x-ray lithographic patterning, electron beam patterning, scanning probe microscopes for observation and for fabrication; cantilever array as dense memory, use of carbon nanotubes and of DNA and related biological elements as building blocks and in selfassembly strategies.

    Prerequisite(s): PH-UY 2033 .
    Also listed under: EL-GY 5533 .
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • PH-GY 5543 Physics of Nanomaterials and Graphene

    3 Credits
    An introductory graduate course for science and engineering students on the basic properties, preparations and applications of Nanomaterials and Graphene. This course will emphasize forms of carbon, including graphitic carbon composites that are a leading structural material in aircraft; and diamond, carbon black, activated charcoal, carbon nanotubes and graphene. Review of the Schrodinger equation as applied to carbon atoms, to diamond, to graphite and to graphene. Trigonal planar bonding as distinguished from tetrahedral bonding. Methods of making graphene including  chemical vapor deposition, exfoliation of graphite. Application of graphene as transparent conductor in solar cells and opto-electronic devices.

    Prerequisite(s): PH-UY 2033  or Graduate Standing
    Also listed under: ME-GY 5253 
  
  • PH-GY 5553 Physics of Quantum Computing

    3 Credits
    This course explores limits to the performance of binary computers, traveling salesman and factorization problems, security of encryption. The concept of the quantum computer based on linear superposition of basis states. The information content of the qubit. Algorithmic improvements enabled in the hypothetical quantum computer. Isolated two-level quantum systems, the principle of linear superposition as well established. Coherence as a limit on quantum computer realization. Introduction of concepts underlying the present approaches to realizing qubits (singly and in interaction) based on physical systems. The systems in present consideration are based on light photons in fiber optic systems; electron charges in double well potentials, analogous to the hydrogen molecular ion; nuclear spins manipulated via the electron-nuclear spin interaction, and systems of ions such as Be and Cd which are trapped in linear arrays using methods of ultra-high vacuum, radiofrequency trapping and laser-based cooling and manipulation of atomic states. Summary and comparison of the several approaches.

    Prerequisite(s): PH-UY 2033 .
    Also listed under: EL-GY 5553 .
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • PH-GY 5663 Physics of Alternative Energy

    3 Credits
    The course examines non-petroleum sources of energy including photovoltaic cells, photocatalytic generators of hydrogen from water, and nuclear fusion reactors. The advanced physics of these emerging technical areas are introduced in this course. Semiconductor junctions, optical absorption in semiconductors, photovoltaic effect. Energy conversion efficiency of the silicon solar cell. Single crystal, polycrystal, and thin film types of solar cells. Excitons in bulk and in confined geometries. Excitons in energy transport within an absorbing structure. Methods of making photocatalytic surfaces and structures for water splitting. Conditions for nuclear fusion. Plasmas and plasma compression. The toroidal chamber with magnetic coils as it appears in recent designs. Nuclear fusion by laser compression (inertial fusion). Small scale exploratory approaches to fusion based on liquid compression and electric field ionization of deuterium gas.

    Prerequisite(s): PH-UY 2033 .
    Also listed under: EL-GY 5663 .
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • PH-GY 6153 Theoretical Mechanics I

    3 Credits
    Principles of particle and rigid body dynamics. Lagrange’s equations. Small vibrations of coupled systems, normal modes of oscillation.

    Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing, or for undergraduates, PH-UY 2104  or equivalent and applied physics graduate adviser’s approval.
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • PH-GY 6163 Theoretical Mechanics II

    3 Credits
    Hamiltonian mechanics. Transformation theories of mechanics including the Poisson Bracket and Hamilton-Jacobi formulations. Lagrangian formulation of mechanics of continuous media.

    Prerequisite(s): PH-GY 6153 .
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • PH-GY 6243 Electromagnetic Theory I

    3 Credits
    Electro- and Magneto-statics. Boundary value problems in three dimensions. Green’s functions and multipole expansions. Polarization and magnetization. Scalar and vector potentials and gauges. Maxwell’s equations.

    Prerequisite(s): Graduate Standing, or for undergraduates, PH-UY 3234  or equivalent and applied physics graduate adviser’s approval.
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • PH-GY 6253 Electromagnetic Theory II

    3 Credits
    Electromagnetic waves. Propagation in free space and in dielectric and conducting media. Polarization, dissipation and dispersion. Guided waves and cavities. Special Relativity. Scattering.

    Prerequisite(s): PH-GY 6243 .
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • PH-GY 6403 Physical Concepts of Polymer Nanocomposites

    3 Credits
    This course presents fundamental aspects of polymer nanocomposites and updates on recent advancements and modern applications. Topics include nanostructured materials; assembly at interfaces; interactions on surfaces; properties of polymer nanocomposites; reliability; nanodevices.

    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • PH-GY 6513 Introduction to Solid-State Physics I

    3 Credits
    Phenomena and theory of physics of crystalline solids. Topics from thermal, magnetic, electrical and optical properties of metals, insulators and semiconductors.

    Prerequisite(s): PH-UY 2344  or equivalent.
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • PH-GY 6523 Introduction to Solid-State Physics II

    3 Credits
    Phenomena and theory of physics of crystalline solids. Topics from thermal, magnetic, electrical and optical properties of metals, insulators and semiconductors.

    Prerequisite(s): PH-GY 6513 .
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • PH-GY 6553 Advanced Quantum Computing

    3 Credits
    Advanced topics in quantum computation are explored.

    Prerequisite(s): PH-GY 5553 .
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • PH-GY 6633 Statistical Mechanics I

    3 Credits
    Equilibrium distributions. Relationships to laws of thermodynamics. Quantum effects. Maxwell-Boltzmann, Fermi-Dirac, Bose-Einstein distributions. Applications to bulk properties phenomena using Boltzmann transport equation.

    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • PH-GY 6643 Statistical Mechanics II

    3 Credits
    Micro-, macro-, and grand-canonical ensembles and principles of classical statistical mechanics. Condensation phenomena. Treatment of fluctuation and transport phenomena. Density matrix formalism of quantum statistical mechanics. Many-body problems.

    Prerequisite(s): PH-GY 6633 .
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • PH-GY 6673 Quantum Mechanics I

    3 Credits
    Quantum mechanics with applications to atomic systems. The use of Schrodinger’s equations. Angular momentum and spin. Semi-classical theory of field-matter interaction.

    Prerequisite(s): MA-UY 2122  and PH-UY 3234  or equivalents.

    Also listed under: EL-GY 6553 .

    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • PH-GY 6683 Quantum Mechanics II

    3 Credits
    Quantum mechanics with applications to atomic systems. The use of Schrodinger’s equations. Angular momentum and spin. Semi-classical theory of field-matter interaction.

    Prerequisite(s): PH-GY 6673 .
    Also listed under: EL 6563.
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • PH-GY 8013 Selected Topics in Advanced Physics

    3 Credits
    Current or advanced topics of particular interest to graduate students are examined. Subject matter is determined each year by students and faculty. The course may be given in more than one section. Consult department office for current offerings.

    Note: this course is not offered every semester.

    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • PH-GY 8023 Selected Topics in Advanced Physics

    3 Credits
    Current or advanced topics of particular interest to graduate students are examined. Subject matter is determined each year by students and faculty. The course may be given in more than one section. Consult department office for current offerings.

    Note: this course is not offered every semester.

    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • PH-GY 9531 Graduate Seminar in Physics I

    1.5 Credits
    Students presenting current topics in Physics in a seminar setting to other students and supervising faculty. Topics chosen by the student with guidance from faculty.

    Weekly Lecture Hours: 1.5 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • PH-GY 9541 Graduate Seminar in Physics II

    1.5 Credits
    Students presenting current topics in Physics in a seminar setting to other students and supervising faculty. Topics chosen by the student with guidance from faculty.

    Weekly Lecture Hours: 1.5 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • PH-UY 1002 Physics: The Genesis of Technology

    2 Credits
    This course introduces contemporary topics in physics, along with readings and discussions of topics with technological implications.

    Weekly Lecture Hours: 2 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • PH-UY 1013 Mechanics

    3 Credits
    This course is the first of a three-semester lecture sequence in general physics for science and engineering students. Motion of particles and systems of particles. One-dimensional motion. Vectors and two-dimensional motions. Forces and acceleration. Conservation of energy and momentum. Rotations. The free and driven harmonic oscillator. Gravitation. (This class meets four hours per week for lectures and recitation.)

    Prerequisite(s): MA-UY 1024  or an approved equivalent. Corequisite(s): MA-UY 1124  or approved equivalent and  .

    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 1
 

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