Physics and Astronomy Course Offerings
General Information
For brief descriptions of courses and scheduled instructors, please consult the ORC published by the Office of the Registrar. For detailed information about the terms and times that courses will be offered, the most reliable source is the Timetables page on the Registrar's site.
Astro 25 (Cohn)
Time Block: 10A
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 102
Textbook: Optional: Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology, An Introduction, 2nd Edition (Schneider)
Astro 115 (Boudreaux)
Time Block: 9S
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 102
Textbook: Stellar Structure and Evolution by Kippenhahn, Weigert, and Weiss 2nd Edition (ISBN-10: 3642302556)
Physics 4 (Blencowe)
Time Block: 12
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 104
Textbook: Physics for Scientists & Engineers, Vol. 2, Douglas Giancoli
Physics 07.10 (Whitfield)
Time Block: 3A
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 115
Textbook: Draft #4, and, Oranges, both by John McPhee.
Physics 13-01 (Caldwell)
Time Block: 10
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 111
Textbook: University Physics, by Ling, Sanny, and Moebs (OpenStax), volume 1 and 2
Physics 13-02 (Caldwell)
Time Block: 11
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 111
Textbook: University Physics, by Ling, Sanny, and Moebs (OpenStax), volume 1 and 2
Physics 14 (Zhou/Ramanathan)
Time Block: 11
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 104
Textbook: Physics for Scientists and Engineers - Volume 2 - by Tipler and Mosca, Sixth Edition
Physics 15 (Rimberg)
Time Block: 11
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 115
Textbook: An Introduction to Mechanics 2nd Ed. by Kleppner and Kolenkow (required), Quantum Physics 2nd Ed. by Eisberg and Resnick (required), A Student's Guide to Waves by Fleisch and Kinnaman (recommended).
Physics 16 (Walker)
Time Block: 11
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 102
Textbook: Electricity and Magnetism, 3rd edition, by Purcell and Morin
Physics 22 (Mueller)
Time Block: 12
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 102
Textbook: R. Shankar, Basic Training in Mathematics: A Fitness Program for Science Students (Springer, 2016).
Physics 41 (Millan)
Time Block: 10
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 102
Textbook: Introduction to Electrodynamics, 4th edition, by David Griffiths (same text used in Fall)
Physics 47 (Wright)
Time Block: 11
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 202
Textbook: Pedrottis' Introduction to Optics, 4th edition, Rayf Shiell and Iain McNab
Physics 72 (Onofrio)
Time Block: 11
Room Request/Preferences: Steele 007
Textbook: Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics, 3rd Edition, by Alessandro Bettini (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
Physics 90 (Ramanathan)
Time Block: 9L
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 202
Textbook: Modern Quantum Mechanics by Sakurai and Napolitano (Third Edition)
Physics 105 (Liu)
Time Block: 10A
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 115
Textbook: Classical Electrodynamics, 3rd Ed., J. D. Jackson.
Physics 113 (Boyack)
Time Block: 10
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 202
Textbook: Fetter and Walecka "Many particle physics", AGD "Quantum field theoretical methods of Statistical physics", Coleman "Introduction to Many-body physics"
Physics 118 (Mahlmann)
Time Block: 3A
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 111
Textbook: Literature suggestions will be announced in class
Physics 256 (Walker)
Time Block: 10A
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 111
Textbook: None
Astro 1 (Chaboyer)
Time Block: 10
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 104
Textbook: Astronomy, 2nd Edtiion by Fraknoi, Morrison and Wolff. https://openstax.org/details/books/astronomy-2e
Astro 15 (Mutlu-Pakdil)
Time Block: 10A
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 111
Textbook: https://openstax.org/details/books/astronomy-2e
Astro 19 (Newton)
Time Block: 10A
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 115
Textbook: Title: How to Build a Habitable Planet, Author: Charles Langmuir & Wally Broecker, ISBN: 978-0691140063
Astro 117 (Cohn)
Time Block: 10A
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 102
Textbook: None Required
Physics 1/2 (Podjed)
Time Block: 12
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 111
Textbook: None
Physics 4 (TBD)
Time Block: 12
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 104
Textbook: Title: Physics for Scientists & Engineers, Volume 2
Author: Douglas Giancoli
Title: Physics for Scientists & Engineers, Volume 3
Author: Douglas Giancoli
Physics 14-01 (Liu)
Time Block: 10
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 111
Textbook: Physics for Scientists and Engineers - Volume 2 - by Tipler and Mosca, Sixth Edition
Physics 14-02 (Walker)
Time Block: 11
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 111
Textbook: Physics for Scientists and Engineers - Volume 2 - by Tipler and Mosca, Sixth Edition
Physics 16 (Zhou)
Time Block: 10
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 102
Textbook: Electricity and Magnetism, 3rd edition, by Purcell and Morin
Physics 19 (Mueller)
Time Block: 9L
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 102
Textbook: Eisberg & Resnick: Quantum Physics, 2nd ed
Physics 40 (Blencowe)
Time Block: 10
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 115
Textbook: Quantum Physics of Atoms, Molecules, Solids, Nuclei and Particles
Author: Robert Eisberg & Robert Resnick
Physics 50 (Boyack)
Time Block: 10
Room Request/Preferences: Steele 007
Textbook: Shankar Principles of Quantum Mechanics
Physics 76 (Wright)
Time Block: 2A
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 209
Textbook: None
Physics 82.03 (Rimberg)
Time Block: 2
Room Request/Preferences: 115 Wilder
Textbook: Getting Started in Quantum Optics, by Ray LaPierre, Springer.
Physics 103 (Viola)
Time Block: 10
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 202 (or Wilder 115)
Textbook: Quantum Mechanics: A Modern Development}, by L. E. Ballentine (Second Edition, World Scientific).
Physics 104 (Ramanathan)
Time Block: 9L
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 202
Textbook: Statistical Mechanics by Pathria and Beale - 4th Edition
Physics 115 (Mahlmann)
Time Block: 3A
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 111
Textbook: Magnetohydrodynamics of Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas (Hans Goedbloed, Rony Keppens, Stefaan Poedts)
Physics 116 (Whitfield)
Time Block: 10A
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 202
Textbook: None
Astro 1 (Chaboyer)
Time Block: 10
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 111
Textbook: OpenStax Astronomy, 2nd edition.
Astro 2 (A-Visitor (Podjed))
Time Block: 11
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 111
Textbook: OpenStax Astronomy
Physics 3 (Mahlmann)
Time Block: 12
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 104
Textbook: Giancoli, Physics for Scientists and Engineers, 5th Ed., Volume I, Pearson
Physics 44 (Visitor)
Time Block: 11
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 115
Textbook: Taylor Classical Mechanics
Astro 2/3 (Boudreaux)
Time Block: 11
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 111
Textbook: OpenStax Astronomy 2e
Astro 74/174 (Newton)
Time Block: 12
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 102
Textbook: Radiative Processes in Astrophysics by Rybicki & Lightman
Physics 3 (Hickox)
Time Block: 12
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 104
Textbook: Title: Physics for Scientists & Engineers, Vol.1 5th edition
Author: Douglas Giancoli
Electronic version will be available in Canvas.
Physics 13-01 (Mutlu-Pakdil)
Time Block: 10
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 104
Textbook: None
Physics 13-02 (Visitor)
Time Block: 11
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 104
Textbook: None
Physics 15 (Liu)
Time Block: 10
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 115
Textbook: An Introduction to Mechanics, 2nd edition, by Kleppner and Kolenkow,
A Student Guide to Waves, by Fleisch and Kinnaman
Quantum Physics of Atoms, Molecules, Solids, Nuclei, and Particles,
2nd edition, by Eisberg and Resnick
Physics 19 (Walker)
Time Block: 9L
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 102
Textbook: none
Physics 40 (Mueller)
Time Block: 10
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 102
Textbook: Eisberg and Resnick, Quantum Physics (of atoms, molecules, solids, nuclei and particles), 2nd ed
Physics 43 (Blencowe)
Time Block: 2A
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 115
Textbook: Statistical Physics, 2nd Edition, by F. Mandl. Wiley (publisher).
Physics 44 (Visitor, Flynn)
Time Block: 11
Room Request/Preferences: 115
Textbook: Taylor Classical Mechanics
Physics 68 (Zhou)
Time Block: 10A
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 202
Textbook: Introduction to Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, FF Chen
Physics 73 (Ramanathan)
Time Block: 9L
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 202
Textbook: Introduction to Solid State Physics by Charles Kittel (Wiley, 8th edition)
Physics 100 (Viola)
Time Block: 11
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 202
Textbook: Mathematics of Classical and Quantum Physics}, by F. W. Byron and R. W. Fuller (Dover Reprint, 1992); plus, additional recommended references
Physics 101 (Visitor)
Time Block: 12
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 202
Textbook: Primary:
Title: Classical Mechanics
Author: Herbert Goldstein, Charles Poole Jr., John Safko
ISBN: 978-0201657029
Title: Theoretical Mechanics of Particles and Continua
Author:Alexander Fetter and John Dirk Walecka.
ISBN: 978-0486432610
Physics 122 (Zhou)
Time Block: 3B
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 202
Textbook: None
Physics 256 (Millan)
Time Block: 3A
Room Request/Preferences: Wilder 202
Textbook: None