National Institute of Physics Courses Offered

[[General Physics Courses ]]

Physics 10 Physics and Astronomy for Pedestrians

Physics 71 Elementary Physics I
Mechanics of Particles, Rigid Bodies, and Fluids
Co-requisite: Math 53
Class Hours: 4 hrs/week
Credit: 4 units

Physics 71.1 Elementary Physics I Lab
Co-requisite: Physics 71
Class Hours: 2 hrs/week
Credit: 1 unit

Physics 72 Elementary Physics II
Electricity and Magnetism, Wave Phenomena, and Optics
Pre-requisite: Physics 71
Class Hours: 2 hrs/week
Credit: 1 unit

Physics 72.1 Elementary Physics Lab II
Pre-requisite: Physics 71.1
Class Hours: 2 hrs/week
Credit: 1 unit

Physics 73 Elementary Physics III
Thermal Physics, Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics
Pre-requisite: Physics 72
Class Hours: 2 hrs/week
Credit: 1 unit

Physics 73.1 Elementary Physics Lab III
Pre-requisite: Physics 72.1
Class Hours: 2 hrs/week
Credit: 1 unit

'''Undergraduate Courses'''

Applied Physics 155
Computer Methods in Physics I
Pre-requisite: Math 121.1

Applied Physics 156 Computer Methods in Physics II
Advanced computer programming methods; numerical modeling and simulations; discrete models; stochastic methods; current approaches in numerical modeling
Pre-requisite: Physics 155
Class Hours:
Credit: 4 units

Applied Physics 171 Introductory Crystallography
Properties and symmetries of crystals; x-ray diffraction; interpretation of diffraction patterns; methods of determining the crystal structure of various substances
Pre-requisite: Physics 105/equivalent
Class Hours: 5
Credit: 3 units

Applied Physics 173 Solid State Physics
Crystal structure of solids; lattice vibrations; band theory of solids; metals; semiconductor materials and devices; dielectric, magnetic, thermal, optical, and mechanical properties of solids, superconductors
Pre-requisite: Physics 105
Class Hours:
Credit: 3 units

Applied Physics 175 Materials Physics I
Fabrication, processing, characterization, and applications of selected semiconductor, dielectric, magnetic, metallic, superconducting and photonic materials
Pre-requisite: Applied Physics 173
Class Hours:
Credit: 3 units

Applied Physics 176 Materials Physics II
Fabrication, processing, characterization, and applications of amorphous materials, liquid crystals, polymers, ceramic composites, and other important new materials
Pre-requisite: Applied Physics 175
Class Hours:
Credit: 3 units

Applied Physics 181 Physical Electronics I
Analysis of passive circuits; resonance and filters; semiconductor theory; noise theory; semiconductor devices and their applications; digital theory; logic and switching circuits; electronic instrumentation
Pre-requisite: Physics 104
Class Hours: 6
Credit: 4 units

Applied Physics 182 Physical Electronics II
Integrated circuits; operational amplifiers and analog electronics; FET, MOSFET, CMOS, analog-digital conversion and multiplexing; computer hardware and interfacing; microprocessors and machine language programming; applications of microprocessors
Pre-requisite: Applied Physics 181
Class Hours: 6
Credit: 4 units

Applied Physics 183 Control Systems Approach to Physics Modeling
Linear and nonlinear systems; analog and digital control systems; time-domain modeling; frequency-domain modeling; transient response, stability analysis, steady-state error; control system design
Pre-requisite: Physics 121
Class Hours:
Credit: 3 units

Applied Physics 185 Instrumentation Physics I
Sensors, transducers, and measurement techniques for various physical variables; signal conditioning, digitization and sampling; signal processing and reliability of data
Pre-requisite: Applied Physics 182, Physics 191
Class Hours: 6
Credit: 4 units

Applied Physics 186 Instrumentation Physics II
Imaging systems and image processing; multidimensional detection techniques; pattern recognition
Pre-requisite: Physics 165, Applied Physics 185
Class Hours: 6
Credit: 4 units

Applied Physics 187 Photonics
Design of Data Acquisition Systems (DAQ)/Digital Signal Processing (DSP)-based instrumentation systems; current topics and techniques for engineering optical instruments; non-destructive testing/measurement using optical methods; interferometry
Pre-requisite: Physics 166, Applied Physics 185
Co-requisite: Applied Physics 186
Class Hours: 6
Credit: 4 units

Applied Physics 195 Special Topics
Selected topics of current interest in applied physics
Pre-requisite: COI
Class Hours:
Credit: 3 units

Applied Physics 199 Undergraduate Research
Satisfactory-or-Unsatisfactory Basis
Pre-requisite: COI
Class Hours:
Credit: 3 units

Applied Physics 200 Undergraduate Thesis
Credit: 3 units

Physics 101 Fundamental Physics I
Fundamentals of Newtonian Mechanics and Gravitational Theory
Co-requisite: Math 54/equivalent
Class Hours:
Credit: 4 units

Physics 101.1 Fundamental Physics Lab I
Co-requisite: Physics 101
Class Hours: 3 hrs/week
Credit: 1 unit

Physics 102 Fundamental Physics II Fundamentals of Electromagnetim and Special Relativity
Pre-requisites: Math 54, Physics 101, 101.1
/ Physics 71, 71.1
Co-requisite: Math 55
Class Hours:
Credit: 4 units

Physics 102.1 Fundamental Physics Lab II
Co-requisite: Physics 102
Class Hours: 3 hrs/week
Credit: 1 unit

Physics 103 Fundamental Physics III
Fundamentals of Waves, Optics, and Thermal Physics
Pre-requisites: Math 55, Physics 102, 102.1 / Physics 72, 72.1
Co-requisite: Math 121.1
Class Hours:
Credit: 4 units

Physics 103.1 Fundamental Physics Lab III
Co-requisite: Physics 103
Class Hours: 3 hrs/week
Credit: 1 unit

Physics 104 Modern Physics I
The old quantum theory up to the Bohr-Sommerfeld model; Schroedinger's equation and elementary wave mechanics; one-electron atoms; multi-electron atoms; Pauli's exclusion principle
Pre-requisites: Physcs 103, Physics 102, Math 121.1
Class Hours: 4 hrs/week
Credit: 4 units

Physics 105 Modern Physics II
Introduction to the physics of x-rays, molecules, lasers, condensed matter, nuclei and fundamental particles
Pre-requisite: Physics 104

Physics 111 Mathematical Physics I
Abstract linear spaces and operators; matrix algebra; vector analysis; Cartesian tensors and elementary differential geometry
Co-requisite: Math 55
Class Hours:
Credit: 3 units

Physics 112 Mathematical Physics II
Complex analysis; differential equations and special functions; Fourier series and transforms
Pre-requisite: Physics 111
Co-requisite: Math 121.1
Class Hours:
Credit: 3 units

Physics 113 Mathematical Physics III
Sturn-Liouville theory; formed linear spaces, inner product space, Hilbert space and linear operators; integral equations and Green functions, functional derivatives; probability and statistics, random variables and random processes
Pre-requisite: Physics 112
Class Hours:
Credit: 3 units

Physics 114 Mathematical Physics IV
Topology, topological spaces, metric spaces; differential forms; introduction to group theory including finite and continuous groups, group representations, Lie groups
Pre-requisite: Physics 113
Class Hours:
Credit: 3 units

Physics 121 Theoretical Mechanics I
Principles of Newtonian mechanics, the Newtonian theory of gravitation, impulse and collisions, constrained motion, Lagrangian dynamics, central-force motion, linear and nonlinear oscillations
Pre-requisite: Physics 103
Co-requisite: Physics 113
Class Hours:
Credit: 3 units

Physics 122 Theoretical Mechanics II
Motion in non-inertial frames, relativistic mechanics, mechanics of rigid-bodies, systems of small coupled oscillations, vibrating strings and one-dimensional waves, introduction to
Pre-requisite: Physics 121
Class Hours:
Credit: 3 units

Physics 131 Electromagnetic Theory I Electrostatics in a vacuum, electrostatics in dielectric media, boundary value methods in electrostatics, electric currents, conducting media, magnetostatics in a vacuum, macroscopic and microscopic magnetism, Faraday’s law of electromagnetic induction Pre-requisite: Physics 103 Co-requisite: Physics 113 Class Hours: Credit: 3 units

Physics 132 Electromagnetic Theory II Maxwell’s equations, special relativity and electrodynamics, motion in static electromagnetic field, the Lienard-Wiechert fields, electromagnetic radiating systems, propagation of electromagnetic waves, wave guides and cavity resonators, classical electron Pre-requisite: Physics 131 Class Hours: Credit: 3 units

Physics 135 Introductory Plasma Physics Fundamental processes of ionization and deionization, basic properties of plasmas, particle or its in electromagnetic fields, continuum model of a plasma, waves in cold plasmas, thermonuclear reactions and plasma devices Pre-requisite: Physics 132 Class Hours: Credit: 3 units

Physics 141 Quantum Physics I Wave packets and uncertainty principle, the Schroedinger equation, simple one-dimensional systems, three-dimensional systems, quantum particle in an external field, the postulates and mathematical Pre-requisite: Physics 104, Physics 112 Class Hours: Credit: 3 units

Physics 142 Quantum Physics II Spin, identical particles, WKB approximation, time-dependent perturbation theory, canonical quantization, introduction to path integrals Pre-requisite: Physics 141, Physics 113 Class Hours: Credit: 3 units

Physics 151 Statistical Physics I Review of thermodynamics, basic statistical concepts, basic methods of statistical mechanics, canonical and grand canonical ensembles some applications of statistical mechanics, quantum statistics of ideal gases Pre-requisite: Physics 121 Class Hours: Credit: 3 units

Physics 152 Statistical Physics II Applications of quantum statistics of ideal gases, elementary kinetic theory of transport processes, Boltzmann equation in the absence of collision, path-integral formulation; general Boltzmann equation; transition probabilities, master equation, Fokker-Planck equation and its applications Pre-requisite: Physics 151 Class Hours: Credit: 3 units

Physics 161 Introductory Laser Physics Intensity equation for light propagation in a medium, Einstein’s theory of light-matter interaction, gain saturation and dispersive effects in lasers, laser amplification and oscillation, optical resonators and optical modes, general properties and applications of lasers Pre-requisite: Physics 104 Class Hours: Credit: 3 units

Physics 165 Optical Physics I Wave theory; geometrical optics; polarization; interference and diffraction Pre-requisite: Physics 131 Class Hours: Credit: 3 units

Physics 166 Optical Physics II Coherence theory; Fourier optics and imaging; basic microscopy; spectroscopy; nonlinear optics Pre-requisite: Physics 165 Class Hours: Credit: 3 units

Physics 170 Condensed Matter Crystal structure; mechanical, thermal, electric, and magnetic properties of solids; hard theory of solids; metals, insulators, and semiconductors; lattice vibrations; imperfections; superconductivity and superfluidity Pre-requisite: Physics 105, Physics 142 Class Hours: Credit: 3 units

Physics 180 Nuclei & Particles Basic nuclear properties and classification of fundamental particles; symmetries and invariance principles; strong, weak, and electromagnetic interactions; SU (3), quarks, and other selected topics Pre-requisite: Physics 142 Class Hours: Credit: 3 units

Physics 191 Experimental Physics I Selected standard experiments in modern physics with accompanying lectures on basic experimental techniques and data analysis as well as practical work in technical drawing and machine shop operations Pre-requisite: Applied Physics 181 Class Hours: 10 hrs/week Credit: 4 units

Physics 192 Experimental Physics II Selected advanced experiments and projects in modern physics with accompanying lectures on advanced experimental techniques, experimental design, and instrumentation Pre-requisite: Physics 191 Class Hours: 7 hrs/week Credit: 3 units

Physics 196 Undergraduate Seminar Pre-requisite: Senior Standing Credit: 1 unit

Physics 199 Undergraduate Research Satisfactory-or-Unsatisfactory Basis Pre-requisite: COI Class Hours: Credit: 3 units

Physics 200 Undergraduate Thesis Credit: 3 units