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Chairperson: David V. Guerra

Professor: David V. Guerra; Associate Professor: Ian T. Durham, Assistant Professor: Jeffrey W. Schnick; Laboratory Instructor: Kathleen Shartzer.

The ideas of physics have a profound significance for anyone who would think about nature and its intelligibility. The department offers a sequence of courses that provides an opportunity for students to study the models, theories, and laws that have been developed in an attempt to describe the physical universe. In addition to serving the general liberal arts education, the department offers majors in physics, applied physics, and engineering physics (3-2 engineering program). The department also offers minors in physics and engineering science.

Programs

• Applied Physics
• Engineering Physics (3-2 Engineering Program)
• Physics
• Physics (Teacher Certification in Physics)

• Engineering Science Minor
• Physics Minor

Courses

• PS 101 - Astronomy
• PS 102 - Geology
• PS 103 - Meteorology
• PS 104 - Forensic Physics
• PS 111-112 - Fundamentals of Physics I - II
• PS 121-122 - General Physics I - II
• PS 131-132 - Classical Physics I - II
• PS 231 - Modern Physics
• PS 241 - Statics
• PS 242 - Dynamics
• PS 243 - Strength of Materials
• PS 245 - Electrical Circuits
• PS 346 - Thermodynamics
• PS 347 - Fluid Dynamics
• PS 380 - Electricity and Magnetism
• PS 383 - Quantum Mechanics
• PS 386 - Mathematical Methods of Physics
• PS 400 - Independent Study
• PS 449 - Topics in Physics
• PS 451 - Independent Research in Physics I
• PS 452 - Independent Research in Physics II
• PS 475-476 - Physics Internship

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