{"id":103,"date":"2010-09-30T10:03:04","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T14:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/2010\/09\/30\/spring-2011-physics-courses\/"},"modified":"2010-10-01T10:24:56","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T14:24:56","slug":"spring-2011-physics-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/2010\/09\/30\/spring-2011-physics-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring 2011 physics courses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<em><strong>CLARIFICATION<\/strong><\/em>: When I said that electronics is one of the ways of satisfying the experimental requirement, I should have been clearer.\u00a0 The physics major requires Intermediate Lab, and one more experimental thing.\u00a0 Electronics and research are the two ways to get that extra thing.\u00a0 You still need Intermediate Lab.<\/p>\n<p>Registration for spring semester&#8217;s not far off.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s some potentially useful information for physics majors and minors.<\/p>\n<p>First, here are the upper-level physics courses we expect to offer.\u00a0 (There are the usual bunch of intro courses too.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>PHYS 216 (Electronics): MWF 1:30-3:30, Matt Trawick.<\/li>\n<li>PHYS 221 (Intermediate Lab): TTh 1:30-4:15, Jerry Gilfoyle.<\/li>\n<li>PHYS 303 (Classical Mechanics): TTh 10:30-11:45, Ovidiu Lipan.<\/li>\n<li>PHYS 306 (Electricity &amp; Magnetism II): MWF 10:30-11:20, Ted Bunn.<\/li>\n<li>Junior-Senior seminar, W 4:30-5:30, Ted Bunn.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A couple of other items to note as you prepare to register:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Electronics will almost certainly not be offered during the following (2011-2012) academic year. Electronics is one of only two ways to satisfy the physics major&#8217;s experimental requirement, the other being research for credit with a faculty member.\u00a0 (<em>See clarification above: this is the post-intermediate-lab experimental requirement.\u00a0 Intermediate lab is required too.<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>E&amp;M II will almost certainly not pass your way again any time soon.<\/li>\n<li>The 2011-2012 schedule is not fixed yet, but we&#8217;re pretty certain to offer Modern, Math Methods, Computational, Stat. Mech., Intermediate Lab, and a new Systems Biology course.\u00a0 Quantum 1 is also very likely, and with luck one more advanced course to be named later.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As always, if you have questions or concerns, <a href=\"mailto:ebunn@richmond.edu\">ask me<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0CLARIFICATION: When I said that electronics is one of the ways of satisfying the experimental requirement, I should have been clearer.\u00a0 The physics major requires Intermediate Lab, and one more experimental thing.\u00a0 Electronics and research are the two ways to get that extra thing.\u00a0 You still need Intermediate Lab. Registration for spring semester&#8217;s not far &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/2010\/09\/30\/spring-2011-physics-courses\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spring 2011 physics courses<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}