Courses
The following nine introductory graduate courses are normally taken
in the first year:
31600. Advanced Classical Mechanics
32200, 32300. Advanced Electrodynamics and Optics I, II
33000, 33100. Mathematical Methods of Physics I, II
34100, 34200. Quantum Mechanics I, II
35200. Statistical Mechanics
33400/33500. Advanced Experimental Physics (required for master’s
and Ph.D. degrees)
The following courses are among those normally taken in the second and
third years:
Category A (Condensed Matter Physics).
36100. Introduction to Solid State Physics
36600. Advanced Solid State Physics
36700. Soft Condensed Matter
Category B (Particle Physics).
36300. Introduction to Particle Physics
44300/44400. Introduction to Quantum Field Theory
44500. Advanced Quantum Field Theory
Category C (Large Scale Physics).
36400. General Relativity
37100. Introduction to Cosmology
37200. Space Physics and Astrophysics
A total of four courses with at least one from each category above is
required for the Ph.D.
Each year the department also offers six to eight advanced (40000-level)
courses dealing with special topics relating to the fundamental research
of individual faculty members.
This list was last revised on 9/02/2003.
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