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400 level courses
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- PHYS 404 Climate Physics
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- Fall term
- 3 credits
- Prerequisite(s): PHYS 230 or PHYS 251, PHYS 232 or PHYS 253, MATH 315 or MATH 325, and MATH 222
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken ATOC 404
- This course covers the essentials of climate physics through the
lens of one-dimensional, vertical atmospheric models. This includes shortwave
and longwave radiative transfer, convection, phase changes, clouds, greenhouse
gases, and atmospheric escape. This is an adequate level of detail for
understanding Earth's climate, paleoclimate, anthropogenic climate change, or
pursing studies of Solar System planets and extrasolar planets.
- Instructor for 2024/25: G. Nguyen (Fall)
- PHYS 413 Physical Basis of Physiology
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- Not offered in 2024/25
- 3 credits
- 3 hours lectures
- Prerequisite: MATH 315, or MATH 325, and permission of the instructor
- Intended for Major or Honours students in Physics, Physiology, Physiology and Physics, or Mathematics and others with permission
- Analytic and computer simulation techniques are used to examine
the role of nonlinearities and time delays in determining the dynamic behaviour
of physiological control systems and their relation to normal and
pathophysiological states. Examples drawn from the control of respiration,
cellular proliferation and differentiation, biochemical feedback networks,
thermoregulatory mechanisms, and neural feedback.
- PHYS 432 Physics of Fluids
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- Winter term
- 3 credits
- 3 hours lectures
- Prerequisites: PHYS 230, MATH 223, MATH 314, MATH 315
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken PHYS 332.
- The physical properties of fluids. The kinematics and dynamics
of flow. The effects of viscosity and turbulence. Applications of fluid
mechanics in biophysics, geophysics and engineering.
- Instructor for 2024/25: E. Lee (Winter)
- PHYS 434 Optics
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- Fall term
- 3 credits
- 2 hours lecture, 3 hours lab
- Corequisite: PHYS 342 or PHYS 352, or permission of the instructor
- Fundamental concepts of optics, including applications and
modern developments. Light propagation in media; geometric optics and optical
instruments; polarization and coherence properties of light; interference and
interferometry; diffraction theory and applications in spectrometry and
imaging; Gaussian beams, Fourier optics and photonic band structure. A
laboratory component provides hands-on experience in optical setup design,
construction and testing of concepts introduced in lectures.
- Instructor for 2024/25: K. Wang (Fall)
- PHYS 436 Modern Physics
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- This course has been replaced by PHYS 447
- 3 credits
- 3 hours lectures
- Prerequisite: PHYS 446
- Restriction: Not open to students in Honours Physics or in Joint Honours in Mathematics and Physics
- One electron atoms, radiation, multielectron atoms, molecular
bonds. Selected topics from condensed matter, nuclear and elementary particle
physics.
- PHYS 439 Majors Laboratory in Modern Physics
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- Fall term
- 3 credits
- 6 hours
- Prerequisite: PHYS 339.
- Corequisite: PHYS 346
- Restriction: Not open to students with credit in PHYS 359 except with permission of instructor
- Advanced level experiments in modern physics stressing quantum
effects and some properties of condensed matter.
- Instructor for 2023/24: J. Childress
- Schedule: TR, 13:35-16:25, room WONG 0110
- PHYS 446 Majors Quantum Physics
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- de Broglie waves, Bohr atom. Schroedinger equation, wave
functions, observables. One dimensional potentials. Schroedinger equation in
three dimensions. Angular momentum, hydrogen atom. Spin, experimental
consequences.
- PHYS 447 Applications of Quantum Mechanics
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- This course replaces PHYS 436
- Winter term
- 3 credits
- Prerequisite(s): PHYS 346 or PHYS 446
- Restriction(s): Not open to students in the following programs: · Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) - Honours Electrical Engineering · Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) - Minor Physics · Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) - Honours Mathematics and Physics · Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) - Honours Physics · Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) - Honours Physics and Chemistry · Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) - Honours Physics and Computer Science
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken or are taking PHYS 457.
- 1. Winter
- 2. 3 hours lectures
- One electron atoms, radiation, multielectron atoms, molecular
bonds. Selected topics from condensed matter, nuclear and elementary particle
physics.
- Instructor for 2024/25: K. Wang (Winter)
- PHYS 449 Majors Research Project
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- Fall or winter terms
- 3 credits
- Winter or Summer
- 6 hours
- Restrictions: U2 or U3 students in a Physics program, or permission of the instructor.
- A supervised research project.
- Instructors for 2024/25: B. Siwick (Fall), B. Siwick (Winter)
- PHYS 451 Honours Classical Mechanics 2
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- This course is no longer offered
- Rigid bodies, angular momentum, gyroscope, moment of inertia,
principal axes, Euler's equations. Coupled oscillations and normal modes.
Lagrangian mechanics and applications. Hamiltonian mechanics. Topics in
advanced analytical mechanics.
- PHYS 457 Honours Quantum Physics 2
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- Winter term
- 3 credits
- 3 hours lectures
- Prerequisite: PHYS 357
- Restriction: Honours students or permission of instructor
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken PHYS 346
- Angular momentum and spin operators. Operator methods in quantum
mechanics. Coupling of spin and angular momenta. Variational principles and
elements of time dependent perturbation theory (the Golden Rule). Solution of
the Schrodinger equation in three dimensions. Applications to the hydrogen and
helium atoms and to simple problems in atomic and molecular physics.
- Instructor for 2024/25: S. Jeon (Winter)
- PHYS 459D1 Research Thesis
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- Fall term
- 3 credits
- Permission of the instructor.
- 6 hours
- Restriction: Honours students or permission of instructor
- Students must register for both PHYS 459D1 and PHYS 459D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both PHYS 459D1 and PHYS 459D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Supervised research project and thesis.
- Instructor for 2024/25: C. Gale (Fall)
- PHYS 459D2 Research Thesis
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- Winter term
- 3 credits
- Prerequisite: PHYS 459D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both PHYS 459D1 and PHYS 459D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- See PHYS 459D1 for course
description.
- Instructor for 2024/25: C. Gale (Winter)
- PHYS 469 Advanced Physics Laboratory 2
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- Fall term
- 3 credits
- 6 hours
- Restriction: Honours students or permission of instructor
- Prerequisite: PHYS 258 or permission of the instructor
- Corequisite: PHYS 457 or PHYS 447 or permission of the instructor.
- Restriction: Open to honours and majors physics students
- Student who have taken PHYS 359 will conduct different experiments in this course.
- Advanced level experiments in physics including quantum effects
and some properties of condensed matter physics and modern physics.
- Instructor for 2024/25: D. Cooke (Fall)
- PHYS 478 Short Research Project
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- Fall term
- 1 credit
- Note: Students are expected to find an appropriate instructor for their project.
- Supervised research project in physics.
- Instructor for 2024/25: M. Hilke (Fall)
- PHYS 479 Physics Research Project
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- Fall or winter terms
- 3 credits
- 6 hours
- Restriction: U2 or U3 students in a Physics program, or permission of the instructor.
- A supervised research project.
- Instructors for 2024/25: B. Siwick (Fall), B. Siwick (Winter)
- PHYS 489 Special Project
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- Winter term
- 3 credits
- 6 hours
- Restriction: Only open to students in their final year of the Joint Major in Physics and Computer Science after consultation with the adviser(s) for the program
- A project incorporating aspects of both physics and computer
science, under the joint supervision of the two departments. The Physics aspect
may be either laboratory-based or theoretical in nature. The Computational
aspect will involve the development and implementation of algorithms arising
from the investigation.
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