Faculty
Course Offerings, Descriptions, & Prerequisites
For current or upcoming courses, see the university’s Course Search. For a catalog description of each course (along with prerequisites) see the Catalog Page. For questions about which introductory physics course is right for you, see the Web Advisor page.
Course Web Pages: Spring 2009
Some courses have associated web pages which are typically maintained by the faculty member teaching the course. Here is a list of Fall 2007 courses, with links provided if the site is available.
Course Title Instructor
PHY 101k Introduction to Physics Ziffer
PHY102 Introduction to Physics Lab Ziffer
PHY 112 Elements of Physics I1 Coakley
PHY 116 Introductory Physics Lab II Peoples/Coakley
PHY 123 General Physics II Nakroshis
PHY 225 Classical Physics III Ziffer
PHY 240/242 Intermediate Physics Lab Nakroshis
PHY 311 Quantum Mechanics LaSala
Physics Club / Society of Physics Students
The Physics Club exists when there is sufficient student interest. The Physics Club site can be reached here.
Staff and Part-time Faculty
(click on picture to go to the faculty home page; click on name to email)
Computing tools for Physics Majors
The physics department has a course use license for an excellent scientific graphing program: Igor Pro 6 by Wavemetrics. Igor Pro is an extremely powerful and fast program for data analysis, and our license lets you install a copy on your home computer or laptop as long as you are taking a physics course. It is worth learning. Contact Prof. Nakroshis for more info.
In addition, several upper level courses require you to learn the scientific typesetting program LaTEX; if you go on to graduate school, you will definitely need to use this tool. It is a free (and large!) download, and is available for all platforms. If you are going to do any writing that involves mathematics, this is the program to use.
Phone: 207.780.4158 Fax: 207.228.8288
Department of Physics, 96 Falmouth Street, Portland, Maine, 04104-9300
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