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Jan 29, 2025
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Rensselaer Catalog 2022-2023 [Archived Catalog]
Physics
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Fall
- HASS Core Elective Credit Hours: 4
(See footnote 1 below.)
Spring
- Free Elective Credit Hours: 4
Fall
- HASS Core Elective Credit Hours: 4
(See footnote 1 below.)
Spring
- HASS Core Elective Credit Hours: 4
(See footnote 1 below.)
The Arch Summer Semester*
*For students who have applied for and been granted an exception, The Arch Summer courses would be taken during the fall semester. For listing of the exception process go to: http://info.rpi.edu/arch/students/#ExceptionProcess.
- HASS Core Elective Credit Hours: 4
(See footnote 1.)
- Mathematics Elective Credit Hours: 4
(See footnote 3.)
- Elective Credit Hours: 4
Fall OR Spring*
*If following the B.S. in Physics curriculum, students must select the spring term as their “on-campus” semester.
- Free Elective Credit Hours: 4
Fall
- Free Elective Credit Hours: 4
- HASS Core Elective Credit Hours: 4
(See footnote 1 below.)
- Mathematics Elective Credit Hours: 4
(See footnote 4 below.)
- Culminating Experience Credit Hours: 4
(See footnote 5 below.)
Spring
- Free Elective Credit Hours: 4
- Free Elective Credit Hours: 4
- HASS Core Elective Credit Hours: 4
(See footnote 1 below.)
Tracks
Technical and free electives may be chosen to provide a 128-credit B.S. in Physics with a track in Computational Physics. Program advisers should be consulted.
Footnotes
- HASS courses shall total 24 credits and meet distribution requirements in the catalog.
- PHYS 1100 and PHYS 1200 may be substituted for PHYS 1150 and PHYS 1250 , respectively.
- MATH 4XXX electives to be chosen from the following:
MATH 4100 - Linear Algebra
MATH 4300 - Introduction to Complex Variables: Theory and Applications
MATH 4400 - Ordinary Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems
MATH 4500 - Methods of Partial Differential Equations of Mathematical Physics
MATH 4600 - Advanced Calculus
MATH 4700 - Foundations of Applied Mathematics
MATH 4800 - Numerical Computing
A Physics course approved by the Physics Undergraduate Program Committee.
- Technical Electives are to be selected with the aid of an adviser in order to create a track in an appropriate applied physics field. See “Applied Physics Track” below.
- Students must complete a culminating experience, which may be fulfilled (1) through research participation; (2) by passing a designated 4-credit senior elective course; or (3) by passing a designated 3-credit course in Physics or Astronomy plus 1 credit of PHYS 4910 .
Electives
Physics majors planning to pursue graduate study should take advanced physics courses chosen from the following undergraduate- and graduate-level offerings:
Additional Information
Students planning on graduate work in astrophysics are urged to choose electives from the above list plus the following:
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