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Departmental Honors

Students wishing to graduate with departmental honors in physics must:

• complete satisfactorily 6 credits of supervised research and be nominated for honors by the supervising faculty member;
• have a 3.0 cumulative average in physics courses; and
• have written a thesis and given an oral presentation of their research project. The physics faculty must approve the awarding of honors for this work.

Programs

• Engineering Physics Major (BS)
• Physics Major (BA)
• Physics Major (BS)

• Physics Minor

Courses

• PHYSIC 107 College Physics I
• PHYSIC 108 College Physics II
• PHYSIC 113 Fundamentals of Physics I
• PHYSIC 114 Fundamentals of Physics II
• PHYSIC 121 Introduction to Astronomy
• PHYSIC 126 Solar System Astronomy
• PHYSIC 134 Energy for the Future
• PHYSIC 181 Physics Laboratory I
• PHYSIC 182 Physics Laboratory II
• PHYSIC 211 Introduction to Contemporary Physics
• PHYSIC 214 Thermodynamics
• PHYSIC 281 Physical Laboratory I
• PHYSIC 312 Mechanics
• PHYSIC 321 Theory of Electricity and Magnetism I
• PHYSIC 322 Theory of Electricity and Magnetism II
• PHYSIC 331 Optics
• PHYSIC 350 Statistical Physics
• PHYSIC 362 Computational Science
• PHYSIC 382 Intermediate Laboratory
• PHYSIC 421 Atomic Physics and Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
• PHYSIC 422 Nuclear and Particle Physics
• PHYSIC 479 Readings in Physics I
• PHYSIC 480 Readings in Physics II
• PHYSIC 481 Adv Projects Lab
• PHYSIC 482 Adv Projects Lab
• PHYSIC 487 Research in Physics I
• PHYSIC 488 Research Physics II

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