Courses Found: 15

    • PHYSICS 3C - Basic Physics III

      Waves and sound; optics; quantum ideas; atomic and nuclear physics; relativity.

    • PHYSICS 3LC - Basic Physics Laboratory

      Practical applications of physics to medical imaging. Topics include optics, radioactivity, and acoustics. Materials fee.

    • PHYSICS 7E - Classical Physics

      Fluids; oscillations; waves; and optics.

    • PHYSICS 18 - How Things Work

      Survey of the physical basis of modern technology, with an emphasis on electronics and materials. Topics include power generation and distribution, communication (radio, TV, telephone, computers, tape recorders, CD players), imaging (optics, x-rays, MRI), and modern materials (alloys, semiconductors, superconductors).

    • PHYSICS 52A - Fundamentals of Experimental Physics

      Optics: lenses, mirrors, polarization, lasers, optical fibers, interference, spectra. Materials fee.

    • PHYSICS 134A - Physical and Geometrical Optics

      Focuses on the practical aspects of optics and optical engineering, starting at the fundamentals. Topics include geometrical optics, ray tracing, polarization optics, interferometers, and diffractive optics.

    • PHYSICS 139 - Observational Astrophysics

      Telescopes and astronomical observations, imaging with CCD detectors and image processing techniques. Photometry and spectroscopy of stars, galaxies, and quasars. Advanced imaging techniques such as deconvolution, adaptive optics, and interferometry.

    • PHYSICS 147B - Techniques in Medical Imaging I: X-ray, Nuclear, and NMR Imaging

      Ionizing radiation, planar and tomographic radiographic and nuclear imaging, magnetism, NMR, MRI imaging.

    • PHYSICS 147C - Techniques in Medical Imaging II: Ultrasound, Electrophysiological, Optical

      Sound and ultrasound, ultrasonic imaging, physiological electromagnetism, EEG, MEG, ECG, MCG, optical properties of tissues, fluorescence and bioluminescence, MR impedance imaging, MR spectroscopy, electron spin resonance and ESR imaging.

    • PH 150 Lasers / PH 249 Special Topics in Plasmas - Lasers

      This course is a basic introduction to lasers - what they are, how they work and a little about their uses. It is based on a longer 2 quarter series previously taught by the instructor elsewhere. It is intended as both a general breadth course for non-specialists and as the first course for students planning further study in lasers. The treatment is limited primarily to steady-state behavior and use classical models for atomic transitions. Little quantum mechanics background is required. While a full treatment of the subject of lasers would span more than a year, those taking this course will learn enough fundamentals to enable self study of additional laser related topics.

    • PHYSICS 213A - Electromagnetic Theory

      Electrostatics; magnetostatics; relativity; classical electron theory; fields in vacuum and matter; retardation; radiation and absorption; dispersion; propagation of light; diffraction; geometric optics; theories of the electric and magnetic properties of materials; scattering.

    • PHYSICS 213B - Electromagnetic Theory

      Electrostatics; magnetostatics; relativity; classical electron theory; fields in vacuum and matter; retardation; radiation and absorption; dispersion; propagation of light; diffraction; geometric optics; theories of the electric and magnetic properties of materials; scattering.

    • PHYSICS 228 - Electromagnetism

      Maxwell’s equations, electrodynamics, electromagnetic waves and radiation, wave propagation in media, interference and quantum optics, coherent and incoherent radiation, with practical applications in interferometry, lasers, waveguides, and optical instrumentation.

    • PHYSICS 233C - Techniques in Medical Imaging II: Ultrasound, Electrophysiological, Optical

      Sound and ultrasound, ultrasonic imaging, physiological electromagnetism, EEG, MEG, ECG, MCG, optical properties of tissues, fluorescence and bioluminescence, MR impedance imaging, MR spectroscopy, electron spin resonance and ESR imaging.

    • Physics 237A - Optical Physics - Physics of Laser Oscillators and Amplifiers

      This course presents the physics of laser oscillators and amplifiers - what they are, how they work and potential uses. It is intended as both a general breadth course for non-specialists and as the first course for students planning further study either in optical physics or in areas of science that require the development and/or use advanced laser systems. The treatment is limited primarily but not exclusively to steady-state behavior and uses semi-classical models for atomic transitions.