• PHYS 3900: Physics Practicum

  1.00 Credits

  Middle Tennessee State University

  
  Prerequisites: PHYS 3100 and consent of instructor. Refines thinking, communication, and interpersonal skills through exposure to on-the-spot technical questions and a laboratory teaching experience as an assistant in an introductory physics laboratory.
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• PHYS 3910: Advanced Physics Lab I

  1.00 Credits

  Middle Tennessee State University

  
  Prerequisites: PHYS 2021 or 2120 and 2121. The skills, art, and physics important in pursuing independent research. Experiments dealing with mechanical, optical, or thermodynamical principles explored. Report writing, literature research, and the use of analysis tools emphasized.
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• PHYS 3920: Advanced Physics Lab II

  1.00 Credits

  Middle Tennessee State University

  
  Prerequisites: PHYS 2021 or 2120 and 2121. The skills, art, and physics important in pursuing independent research. Experiments dealing with mechanical, optical, or thermodynamical principles explored. Report writing, literature research, and the use of analysis tools emphasized.
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• PHYS 3930: The Teaching of Physics

  3.00 Credits

  Middle Tennessee State University

  
  Prerequisite: PHYS 3900 or (MATH 3330 and PHYS 2021). Introduces physics teaching pedagogies resulting from physics education research. Methods studied to include inquiry, discovery, and modeling-based approaches. Seminar meetings will be supplemented with extensive experience as a learning assistant in a hands-on cooperative-learning and/or discovery-learning based introductory physics course.
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• PHYS 3950: Reasoning in Physics I

  1.00 Credits

  Middle Tennessee State University

  
  Prerequisites: PHYS 2021 or PHYS 2121 and MATH 1920. Develops skills of reasoning and articulating physics concepts for improved understanding and performance on physics exams and upper-level courses. Focuses on topics typically covered in the first semester of introductory physics. One one-hour, twenty-five minute lecture per week.
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• PHYS 3960: Reasoning in Physics II

  1.00 Credits

  Middle Tennessee State University

  
  Prerequisite: PHYS 3950. Develops skills of reasoning and articulating physics concepts for improved understanding and performance on physics exams and upper-level courses. Focuses on topics typically covered in the second semester of introductory physics. One-hour twenty-five minutes lecture per week.
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• PHYS 4310: Electricity and Magnetism

  3.00 Credits

  Middle Tennessee State University

  
  Prerequisite: PHYS 3160. Topics including electric and magnetic fields, electrostatic potential, and potential energy and fields in matter, discussed in a mathematically rigorous manner. A variety of good applications of mathematical methods in physics.
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• PHYS 4330: Electricity and Magnetism II

  3.00 Credits

  Middle Tennessee State University

  
  Prerequisite: PHYS 4310. Topics include theory of electromagnetic radiation, production and propagation of electromagnetic waves, and the solution of boundary-value problems with applications to optics, wave guides, and lasers.
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• PHYS 4380: Quantum Mechanics

  3.00 Credits

  Middle Tennessee State University

  
  Prerequisites: PHYS 3110 and 3160. Topics include both one- and three-dimensional solutions to the Schroedinger equation, including the infinite square-well, finite square-well, tunneling, the harmonic oscillator, and the hydrogen atom with a discussion of angular momentum at a mathematically rigorous undergraduate level.
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• PHYS 4390: Advanced Quantum Mechanics

  3.00 Credits

  Middle Tennessee State University

  
  Prerequisite: PHYS 4380. Advanced topics in quantum mechanics, including time-independent and time-dependent perturbation theory, systems of indistinguishable particles, the Aharonov-Bohm effect, Fermi's Golden Rule, and an introduction to quantum field theory.
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