Topics covered may vary and may include energy and conservation, radioactivity, nuclear physics, the Theory of Relativity, lasers, explosions, earthquakes, superconductors, and quantum physics. Descriptive Introduction to Physics: Read Less [-]. Terms offered: Spring , Fall , Spring The most interesting and important topics in physics, stressing conceptual understanding rather than math, with applications to current events.
Terms offered: Spring , Spring , Spring Physical principles encountered in the study of music. The applicable laws of mechanics, fundamentals of sound, harmonic content, principles of sound production in musical instruments, musical scales. Numerous illustrative lecture demonstrations will be given. Only the basics of high school algebra and geometry will be used. Prerequisites: No previous courses in Physics are assumed, although Physics 10 is recommended. Terms offered: Spring , Spring , Spring What can we learn about the nature of reality and the ways that we humans have invented to discover how the world works?
An exploration of these questions through the physical principles encountered in the study of music. Terms offered: Fall , Fall , Fall The Berkeley Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small-seminar setting. Berkeley Seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester.
Final exam required. Terms offered: Spring , Spring , Fall Enrollment limited to 20 students per section. Physics seminar course designed for both non major students and students considering a major in physics. Topics vary from semester to semester. Prerequisites: Enrollment by consent of instructor during the week of pre-enrollment. Consult bulletin boards outside Le Conte for more information.
Terms offered: Spring , Spring , Fall Students with partial credit in lower division physics courses may, with consent of instructor, complete the credit under this heading. Terms offered: Spring , Fall , Spring Introductory scientific programming in Python with examples from physics. Topics include: visualization, statistics and probability, regression, numerical integration, simulation, data modeling, function approximation, and algebraic systems.
Recommended for freshman physics majors. Prerequisites: Math 1A; Physics 5A or 7A which may be taken concurrently or permission of instructor. Terms offered: Spring , Fall , Spring Introduction to data science with applications to physics. Topics include: statistics and probability in physics, modeling of the physical systems and data, numerical integration and differentiation, function approximation.
Connector course for Data Science 8, room-shared with Physics Recommended for freshmen intended to major in physics or engineering with emphasis on data science. Student Learning Outcomes: Learning goals for Physics 88 The following learning goals will guide the presentation of material as well as development of HWs, rubrics for assessment, and practice problems for use in discussion section: 1 Use of representations, 2 Communication, 3 Tools, 4 Problem-Solving, 5 Making connections, 6 Intellectual maturity and metacognition, 7 Resourcefulness.
Prerequisites: Math 1A, 1B 1B can be taken concurrently , Physics 5A or 7A may be taken concurrently , Data Science 8 may be taken concurrently , or permission of instructor.
Terms offered: Spring , Fall , Spring Complex numbers, linear algebra, ordinary differential equations, Fourier series and transform methods, introduction to partial differential equations, introduction to tensors. Applications to physics will be emphasized. This course or an equivalent course required for physics major. Introduction to Mathematical Physics: Read Less [-]. Of central importance to nearly all areas of physics are the fields of linear algebra and differential equations.
A solid understanding of the structure and techniques of these fields will allow you to dig deeper into all of your physics courses and give you a greater appreciation of the beauty of physical theory. In this course we will develop and explore a collection of tools including complex numbers, linear algebra, differential equations, Fourier series and transform methods, and tensors. Along the way this course will explore many example systems you were exposed to in your introductory physics classes including waves, circuits, rotations, and oscillations.
Summer: 10 weeks - 6 hours of web-based lecture and 2 hours of web-based discussion per week. Prerequisites: Restricted to freshman and sophomores only; consent of instructor. Credit Restrictions: Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Spring , Fall , Spring Berkeley Connect is a mentoring program, offered through various academic departments, that helps students build intellectual community. Over the course of a semester, enrolled students participate in regular small-group discussions facilitated by a graduate student mentor following a faculty-directed curriculum , meet with their graduate student mentor for one-on-one academic advising, attend lectures and panel discussions featuring department faculty and alumni, and go on field trips to campus resources.
Students are not required to be declared majors in order to participate. Prerequisites: Restricted to freshmen and sophomores only; consent of instructor.
Terms offered: Spring , Spring , Spring For undergraduate and graduate students interested in improving their ability to communicate scientific knowledge by teaching science in K schools. The course will combine instruction in inquiry-based science teaching methods and learning pedagogy with 10 weeks of supervised teaching experience in a local school. Students will practice, with support and mentoring, communicating scientific knowledge through presentations and hands-on activities.
Approximately three hours per week including time spent in school classrooms. Some knowledge of Python required for homework assignments. Students who have not taken Physics 77 or Data Science 8 are encouraged to complete the Python tutorials provided by the Physics Department.
A course emphasizing electromagnetic theory and applications; charges and currents; electric and magnetic fields; dielectric, conducting, and magnetic media; relativity, Maxwell equations.
Wave propagation in media, radiation and scattering, Fourier optics, interference and diffraction, ray optics and applications. Terms offered: Spring , Fall , Spring The instrumentation lab formerly Basic Semiconductor Circuits is an introductory course in basic design, analysis and modeling of circuits, and data analysis and control. These include many experiments in atomic, nuclear, particle physics, biophysics, and solid-state physics, among others.
Credit Restrictions: Three units of the Advanced Experimentation lab required for physics major; After the first three units, lab may be repeated for additional credit.
No more than three units may be completed in one semester. Advanced Experimentation Laboratory: Read Less [-].
Terms offered: Spring , Fall , Spring Basic concepts of statistical mechanics, microscopic basis of thermodynamics and applications to macroscopic systems, condensed states, phase transformations, quantum distributions, elementary kinetic theory of transport processes, fluctuation phenomena.
Terms offered: Fall , Fall , Fall Tools of particle and nuclear physics. Properties, classification, and interaction of particles including the quark-gluon constituents of hadrons. High energy phenomena analyzed by quantum mechanical methods. Course will survey the field including some related topics in nuclear physics. Some knowledge of Python required. Terms offered: Spring , Spring , Spring Detailed theory and experimental basis of quantum and nonlinear optics, exhibiting concepts of quantum measurement, noise, stochastic processes and dissipative quantum systems.
Topics include second-quantization of electromagnetic fields, photodetection, coherence properties, light-atom interactions, cavity quantum electrodynamics, nonlinear optical systems, squeezed light, aspects of quantum information science, and contemporary researc h.
Introduction to the methods of quantum mechanics with applications to atomic, molecular, solid state, nuclear and elementary particle physics. Terms offered: Spring , Spring , Spring This course covers atomic, molecular, and optical physics as a quantitative description of atoms and fields, a generalized toolbox for controlling quantum systems, and a vibrant research area. Topics covered include atomic structure and spectra, atom-field interactions, topics in quantum electrodynamics, methods of resonant manipulation of quantum systems, resonance optics, and experimental techniques.
Terms offered: Spring , Spring , Spring Historical and experimental foundations of Einstein's special theory of relativity; spatial and temporal measurements, particle dynamics, electrodynamics, Lorentz invariants. Introduction to general relativity. Selected applications. Designed for advanced undergraduates in physics and astronomy.
A thorough introductory course in modern solid state physics. Crystal symmetries; classification of solids and their bonding; electromagnetic, elastic, and particle waves in periodic lattices; thermal magnetic and dielectric properties of solids; energy bands of metals and semi-conductors; superconductivity; magnetism; ferroelectricity; magnetic resonances.
Terms offered: Spring , Spring , Spring Motion of charged particles in electric and magnetic fields, dynamics of fully ionized plasma from both microscopic and macroscopic point of view, magnetohydrodynamics, small amplitude waves; examples from astrophysics, space sciences and controlled-fusion research.
Terms offered: Spring , Fall , Spring Topics vary from semester to semester. The subject matter level and scope of the course are such that it is acceptable as the required elective course in the Physics major. See Department of Physics course announcements.
Terms offered: Fall , Fall , Fall This course is designed to assist physics and other physical sciences transfer students in their transition to UC Berkeley. Over the course of a semester, students will learn about campus resources, how to navigate the campus, establish connections with other students in their cohorts, receive physics transfer peer mentorship and advising.
Students will work in small-groups to solve challenging mathematical and physics concepts to assist with academic success. Prerequisites: Open only to physics and other physical sciences transfer students. Terms offered: Spring , Spring , Spring Elements of general relativity. Physics of pulsars, cosmic rays, black holes. The cosmological distance scale, elementary cosmological models, properties of galaxies and quasars.
The mass density and age of the universe. Evidence for dark matter and dark energy and concepts of the early universe and of galaxy formation. Reflections on astrophysics as a probe of the extrema of physics. Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology: Read Less [-].
Terms offered: Spring , Spring , Spring We will review the structure of proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, lipids, and the forces and interactions maintaining their structure in solution. We will describe the thermodynamics and kinetics of protein folding. The principles of polymer chain statistics and of helix-coil transitions in biopolymers will be reviewed next, together with biopolymer dynamics.
We will then cover the main structural methods in biology: X-ray crystallography , MNR and fluorescence spectroscopy, electron and probe microscopy, and single molecular methods. Principles of Molecular Biophysics: Read Less [-]. Terms offered: Fall , Fall , Fall The course design covers data analysis and machine learning, highlighting their importance to the physical sciences.
It covers data analysis with linear and nonlinear regression, logistic regression, and gaussian processes. It covers concepts in machine learning such as unsupervised and supervised regression and classification learning. It develops Bayesian statistics and information theory, covering concepts such as information, entropy, posteriors , MCMC, latent variables, graphical models and hierarchical Bayesian modeling.
It covers numerical analysis topics such as integration and ODE, linear algebra, multi-dimensional optimization, and Fourier transforms. Terms offered: Spring , Spring , Spring A seminar which includes study and reports on current theoretical and experimental problems. Open only to students officially in the physics honors program or with consent of instructor.
Terms offered: Fall , Fall , Spring This multidisciplinary course provides an introduction to fundamental conceptual aspects of quantum mechanics from a computational and informational theoretic perspective, as well as physical implementations and technological applications of quantum information science. Basic sections of quantum algorithms, complexity, and cryptography, will be touched upon, as well as pertinent physical realizations from nanoscale science and engineering.
Terms offered: Fall , Spring , Fall Thesis work under the supervision of a faculty member. To obtain credit the student must, at the end of two semesters, submit a satisfactory thesis. A total of four units must be taken. The units may be distributed between one or two semesters in any way. This is part one of a year long series course. A provisional grade of IP in progress will be applied and later replaced with the final grade after completing part two of the series.
Terms offered: Spring , Fall , Spring Thesis work under the supervision of a faculty member. This is part two of a year long series course. Upon completion, the final grade will be applied to both parts of the series. Terms offered: Spring , Spring , Fall Enrollment restrictions apply; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section in this catalog. Summer: 6 weeks - 2. Terms offered: Prior to Discussion-based introduction to contemporary research in physics for advanced undergraduates.
Presentation of different weekly topics in physics research led by graduate students, postdocs, or professors in a particular field to connect upper division physics majors with contemporary research and to increase dialogue between upper division undergraduates and researchers in the department. Course Objectives: -- To connect upper division physics majors with contemporary research in a way that traditional coursework does not. This has resulted in research projects for several students -- Students received mentoring from the graduate student on many career path issues.
Alternative to final exam. Terms offered: Fall , Spring , Fall Enrollment restrictions apply; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section in this catalog. Terms offered: Spring , Spring , Spring A three-module introduction to the fundamental topics of Nano-Science and Engineering NSE theory and research within chemistry, physics, biology, and engineering. This course includes quantum and solid-state physics; chemical synthesis, growth fabrication, and characterization techniques; structures and properties of semiconductors, polymer, and biomedical materials on nanoscales; and devices based on nanostructures.
Prerequisites: Major in physical science such as chemistry, physics, etc. Terms offered: Spring , Spring , Spring Principles of gas dynamics, self-gravitating fluids, magnetohydrodynamics and elementary kinetic theory. Aspects of convection, fluid oscillations, linear instabilities, spiral density waves, shock waves, turbulence, accretion disks, stellar winds, and jets.
Terms offered: Spring , Spring , Spring A multidisciplinary overview of computational nanoscience for both theorists and experimentalists. This course teaches the main ideas behind different simulation methods; how to decompose a problem into "simulatable" constituents; how to simulate the same thing two different ways; knowing what you are doing and why thinking is still important; the importance of talking to experimentalists; what to do with your data and how to judge its validity; why multiscale modeling is both important and nonsense.
Terms offered: Spring , Spring , Spring Lagrange and Hamiltonian dynamics, variational methods, symmetry, kinematics and dynamics of rotation, canonical variables and transformations, perturbation theory, nonlinear dynamics, KAM theory, solitons and integrable pdes.
Terms offered: Spring , Spring , Fall Nonlinear dynamics of dissipative systems, attractors, perturbation theory, bifurcation theory, pattern formation. Emphasis on recent developments, including turbulence.
The Physics 5 Series is a laboratory based sequence that is specifically designed for students interested in majoring in Physics. In some sense, it is an honors version of the Physics 7 series. The Physics 5 series is considerably more theoretical and much more math heavy. Student feedback is that these courses can be time-consuming and are not necessarily recommended unless students are planning to take upper division physics courses or are very interested in the electrical engineering side of EECS.
The Physics 5 series has been reported to make the transition to upper division physics more manageable.
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