Note: You must establish a session for Fall Academic Term 2004 on wolverineaccess.umich.edu in order to use the link "Check Times, Location, and Availability". Once your session is established, the links will function. Courses in Applied Physics These pages are no longer maintained. Consult the new Course Guide at: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/lsa/cg_subjectlist/0,2030,8,00.html?show=20&termArray=f_04_1510&cgtype=gr This page was created at 10:54 PM on Mon, May 10, 2004. Fall Academic Term 2004 (September 7 - December 23) Search the LS&A Course Guide (Advanced Search Page) APPPHYS 514. Applied Physics Seminar. Section 001. Instructor(s): Roy Clarke (royc@umich.edu) Prerequisites: Graduate standing. (1-2). May be elected more than once for credit. Credits: (1-2). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. Research presentations given by a mix of faculty, external lecturers, and students. The goal of the seminar is to promote awareness of forefront issues in applied physics and to provide for more interactions among participants in the Applied Physics program. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: 1 APPPHYS 518 / PHYSICS 518. Microcomputers in Experimental Research. Instructor(s): Ramon Torres-Isea Prerequisites: Graduate standing. (3). May not be repeated for credit. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. A graduate-level laboratory course in the application of microcomputers to experimental research, this course is designed to give students hands-on experience of modern techniques of data acquisition, data handling and analysis, and graphical presentation of results, using microcomputers. A number of experiments will be carried out which illustrate how to interface modern research instrumentation in a variety of commonly encountered experimental situations. (Note: This course can be substituted by a graduate level course in numerical methods, or methods for computer simulations.) Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: 5, Permission of Department APPPHYS 529 / PHYSICS 529. Techniques of Experimental Physics. Section 001. Instructor(s): Prerequisites: Graduate standing. (3). May not be repeated for credit. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. See PHYSICS 529.001. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: No Data Given. APPPHYS 530 / EECS 530. Electromagnetic Theory I. Section 001. Instructor(s): Prerequisites: PHYSICS 438 or EECS 330. (3). May not be repeated for credit. CAEN lab access fee required for non-Engineering students. Credits: (3). Lab Fee: CAEN lab access fee required for non-Engineering students. Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. Maxwell's equations, constitutive relations and boundary conditions. Potentials and the representation of electromagnetic fields. Uniqueness, duality, equivalence, reciprocity and Babinet's theorems. Plane, cylindrical, and spherical waves. Waveguides and elementary antennas. The limiting case of electro- and magneto-statics. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: 1 APPPHYS 537 / EECS 537. Classical Optics. Section 001. Instructor(s): Prerequisites: EECS 330 or 334. (3). May not be repeated for credit. CAEN lab access fee required for non-Engineering students. Credits: (3). Lab Fee: CAEN lab access fee required for non-Engineering students. Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. A theory of electromagnetic, physical, and geometrical optics. Classical theory of dispersion. Linear response, Kramers-Kronig relations, and pulse propagation. Light scattering. Geometrical optics and propagation in inhomogeneous media. Dielectric waveguides. Interferometry and theory of coherence. Diffraction, Fresnel and Fraunhofer. Guassian beams and ABCD law. 1. Review of Maxwell's equations & derivation of wave equation 2. Plane wave solutions, Poynting's theorem, momentum transfer 3. Boundary conditions on fields, derivation of Fresnel reflection and transmission formulae 4. Brewster's angle, total internal reflection, frustrated TIR, conducting media 5. Inhomogeneous media: propagation and TIR 6. Classical dispersion theory: electric dipole radiation, decay, Lorentz model 7. Macroscopic polarization: dephasing and steady-state solutions of the Lorentz model, concept of susceptibility 8. Complex susceptibilities, Sellmeier equation, resonant dispersion and absorption, Beer's Law 9. Time- and frequency-domain response functions, Fourier transform relations, causality and Kramers-Kronig relations 10. Pulse propagation, group velocity 11. Light scattering: cross sections, attenuation 12. Light scattering: the Mie solution 13. Light scattering: Rayleigh, Brillouin and Raman scattering (blue sky, red sunset, fiber losses) 14. Fluctuation-dissipation theorem 15. Review of geometric optics: eikonal and ray equations, lenses, images 16. Paraxial ray tracing and ABCD matrices 17. ABCD matrices of optical systems (the ABCD law), thick lenses 18. Principal planes, stops, pupils, chromatic aberrations 19. Other aberrations 20. Interference: double slit, layered media 21. Michelson and other interferometers 22. Interference of N waves: N-slit pattern, gratings, Fabry-Perot 23. Properties and applications of the Favry-Perot 24. Coherence: beats between waves, transform relation between fringe pattern and power spectrum 25. ; Coherence: physical models of processes limiting coherence time, fringe visibility, correlation functions 26. Coherence: degree of coherence, Wiener-Khintchine theorem 27. Coherence: spatial coherence, mutual coherence, applications in stellar interferometry and phosphors 28. Diffraction: paraxial wave equation and Gaussian beam solutions 29. Properties of Gaussian beams: the ABCD law applied to resonators and diffraction-limited beams 30. Focusing of Gaussian beams, Guoy shift, higher order Hermite-Gaussian and Laguerre-Gaussian modes 31. Diffraction: Huygen's principle, Fresnel-Kirchoff theory 32. Fresnel and Fraunhofer limits, spatial frequencies, 2-D Fourier transforms 33. Specific applications: rectangular aperture, circular aperture 34. Array theorem (& gratings), Babinet's Principle, Fresnel diffraction of the rectangular aperture 35. Cornu spiral, Fresnel zones 36. Radiation by accelerating charges: Lienard-Wiechert potentials 37. Radiation by accelerating charges: angular distributions and radiation damping 38. Radiation by accelerating charges: linear and circular accelerators, synchrotron radiation. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: 1 APPPHYS 540 / EECS 540. Applied Quantum Mechanics. Section 001. Instructor(s): Prerequisites: Permission of instructor. (3). May not be repeated for credit. CAEN lab access fee required for non-Engineering students. Credits: (3). Lab Fee: CAEN lab access fee required for non-Engineering students. Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. Wave packets, wave equations, the linear operators of quantum mechanics; Schrödinger theory; bound state problems; spherical harmonics; transformation theory and Dirac notation; stationary state perturbation theory; WKB approximation, Rayleigh, Schrödinger and Wigner-Brillouin expansions; electron spin, spin-orbit coupling and atomic spectra; angular momentum coupling; Clebsch-Gordan coefficients; general rotations in space; spherical tensor operators; systems of identical particles and the two-electron atom; variational methods; the He atom. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: 1 and 5, Permission of instructor APPPHYS 550 / PHYSICS 650 / EECS 538. Lasers and Electro-Optics I. Section 001. Instructor(s): Prerequisites: EECS 434. Graduate Standing. (3). May not be repeated for credit. CAEN lab access fee required for non-Engineering students. Credits: (3). Lab Fee: CAEN lab access fee required for non-Engineering students. Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. Propagation of laser beams: Gaussian wave optics and the ABCD law. Manipulation of light by electrical, acoustical waves; crystal properties and the dielectric tensor; electro-optic, acousto-optic effects and devices. Introduction to nonlinear optics; harmonic generation, optical rectification, four-wave mixing, self-focusing, and self-phase modulation. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: 1 APPPHYS 619 / PHYSICS 619. Advanced Solid State Physics. Section 001. Instructor(s): Prerequisites: Graduate standing. (3). May not be repeated for credit. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. See PHYSICS 619.001. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: No Data Given. APPPHYS 644 / PHYSICS 644. Advanced Atomic Physics. Section 001. Instructor(s): Prerequisites: Graduate standing. (3). May not be repeated for credit. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. See PHYSICS 644.001. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: No Data Given. APPPHYS 715. Independent Research. Instructor(s): Prerequisites: Permission of Program Director. Graduate Standing. (1-5). (INDEPENDENT). May not be repeated for credit. Credits: (1-5). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. Intended for individualized student non-thesis research under the supervision of Applied Physics faculty. Must be arranged with the faculty member and approved by the program. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: 5, Permission of Department APPPHYS 990. Dissertation/Precandidate. Instructor(s): Prerequisites: Election for dissertation work by doctoral student not yet admitted as a Candidate. Graduate Standing. (1-8). (INDEPENDENT). May be repeated for credit. This course has a grading basis of "S" or "U." Credits: (1-8; 1-4 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. Election for dissertation work by doctoral student not yet admitted as a Candidate. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: 5, Permission of Department APPPHYS 995. Dissertation/Candidate. Instructor(s): Prerequisites: Graduate School authorization for admission as a doctoral Candidate (Prerequisites enforced at registration). (8). (INDEPENDENT). May be repeated for credit. This course has a grading basis of "S" or "U." Credits: (8; 4 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. Graduate School authorization for admission as a doctoral Candidate. N.B. 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