Units: 5
Hours: Labora- tory, 11 hours; individual study, 6 hours; workshop, .8 hours per week
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Prerequisites: ENGL 001B with a grade of C or better; one of the following: PHYS 002C with a grade of B- or better or PHYS 040E with a grade of C- or better or PHYS 041C with a grade of C- or better; upper-division standing in Physics; consent of advisor
Description: A capstone experience consisting of experiments chosen from areas in contemporary physics. Includes writing instruction with an emphasis on technical communication. Fulfills the third-quarter writing requirement for students who earn a grade of “C” or better for courses that the Academic Senate Physics and Astronomy central force problem, the Kepler problem, and scattering. Also examines orthogonal transformations, rigid body motion, the inertia tensor, Euler’s equations, Hamiltonian formulation, canonical transformations, and complex integration. Tsai