printer friendly pageAPPPHYS 77N: Functional Materials and Devices
Preference to freshmen. Exploration via case studies how functional materials have been developed and incorporated into modern devices. Particular emphasis is on magnetic and dielectric materials and devices. Recommended: high school physics course including electricity and magnetism.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-EngrAppSci, WAY-SMA
Instructors:
Suzuki, Y. (PI)
APPPHYS 79N: Energy Options for the 21st Century
Preference to freshmen. Choices for meeting the future energy needs of the U.S. and the world. Basic physics of energy sources, technologies that might be employed, and related public policy issues. Trade-offs and societal impacts of different energy sources. Policy options for making rational choices for a sustainable world energy economy.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-EngrAppSci, WAY-SMA
Instructors:
Fox, J. (PI)
;
Geballe, T. (PI)
APPPHYS 201: Electrons and Photons
Applied Physics Core course appropriate for graduate students and advanced undergraduate students with prior knowledge of elementary quantum mechanics, electricity and magnetism, and special relativity. Interaction of electrons with intense electromagnetic fields from microwaves to x- ray, including electron accelerators, x-ray lasers and synchrotron light sources, attosecond laser-atom interactions, and x-ray matter interactions. Mechanisms of radiation, free-electron lasing, and advanced techniques for generating ultrashort brilliant pulses. Characterization of electronic properties of advanced materials, prospects for single-molecule structure determination using x-ray lasers, and imaging attosecond molecular dynamics.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
APPPHYS 203: Atoms, Fields and Photons
Applied Physics Core course appropriate for graduate students and advanced undergraduate students with prior knowledge of elementary quantum mechanics, electricity and magnetism, and ordinary differential equations. Structure of single- and multi-electron atoms; electron correlation, atom-photon and atom-atom entanglement; fundamentals of laser spectroscopy and coherent control. Phenomenology and quantitative modeling of atoms in strong fields, with modern applications. Introduction to quantum optical theory of atom-photon interactions, including quantum trajectory theory.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Bucksbaum, P. (PI)
;
Mabuchi, H. (PI)
APPPHYS 204: Quantum Materials
Applied Physics Core course appropriate for graduate students and advanced undergraduate students with prior knowledge of elementary quantum mechanics. Introduction to materials of current interest, with an emphasis on quantum matter. Topics include superconductivity, magnetism, phase transitions, multiferroics, surface and interface states. Prerequisite: elementary course in quantum mechanics.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Fisher, I. (PI)
;
Suzuki, Y. (PI)
APPPHYS 205: Introduction to Biophysics (BIO 126, BIO 226)
Core course appropriate for advanced undergraduate students and graduate students with prior knowledge of calculus and a college physics course. Introduction to how physical principles offer insights into modern biology, with regard to the structural, dynamical, and functional organization of biological systems. Topics include the roles of free energy, diffusion, electromotive forces, non-equilibrium dynamics, and information in fundamental biological processes.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Ganguli, S. (PI)
;
Schnitzer, M. (PI)
APPPHYS 207: Laboratory Electronics
Lecture/lab emphasizing analog and digital electronics for lab research. RC and diode circuits. Transistors. Feedback and operational amplifiers. Active filters and circuits. Pulsed circuits, voltage regulators, and power circuits. Precision circuits, low-noise measurement, and noise reduction techniques. Circuit simulation tools. Analog signal processing techniques and modulation/demodulation. Principles of synchronous detection and applications of lock-in amplifiers. Common laboratory measurements and techniques illustrated via topical applications. Limited enrollment. Prerequisites: undergraduate device and circuit exposure.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Fox, J. (PI)
APPPHYS 208: Laboratory Electronics
Lecture/lab emphasizing analog and digital electronics for lab research. Continuation of
APPPHYS 207 with emphasis on applications of digital techniques. Combinatorial and synchronous digital circuits. Design using programmable logic. Analog/digital conversion. Microprocessors and real time programming, concepts and methods of digital signal processing techniques. Current lab interface protocols. Techniques commonly used for lab measurements. Development of student lab projects during the last three weeks. Limited enrollment. Prerequisites: undergraduate device and circuit exposure. Recommended: previous enrollment in
APPPHYS 207.
Last offered: Spring 2012
APPPHYS 215: Numerical Methods for Physicists and Engineers
Review of basic numerical techniques with additional advanced material: derivatives and integrals; linear algebra; linear least squares fitting, FFT and wavelets, singular value decomposition, linear prediction; optimization, nonlinear least squares, maximum entropy methods; deterministic and stochastic differential equations, Monte Carlo methods.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Moler, K. (PI)
APPPHYS 217: Estimation and Control Methods for Applied Physics
Recursive filtering, parameter estimation, and feedback control methods based on linear and nonlinear state-space modeling. Topics in: dynamical systems theory; practical overview of stochastic differential equations; model reduction; and tradeoffs among performance, complexity, and robustness. Numerical implementations in MATLAB. Contemporary applications in systems biology and quantum precision measurement. Prerequisites: linear algebra and ordinary differential equations.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Mabuchi, H. (PI)
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