The Physics major is at a minimum comprised of nine 4-credit courses:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Three terms of a 1-credit course (including Spring of Senior Year):<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In addition, the following mathematics courses are pre-requisites for core curriculum physics courses:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Physics majors are also required to engage in an original research project<\/a> which will meet Macalester\u2019s Capstone requirement. A Capstone in physics consists of a talk presented during physics seminar spring of senior year, and a written paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Many physics courses require prerequisites or co-requisites. Please consult the course dependency charts<\/a> for the major and the major with an astronomy emphasis. Sample schedules<\/a> are also available for students considering the physics major.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Physics with Astronomy emphasis major is at a minimum comprised of nine 4-credit courses:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Three terms of a 1-credit course (including Spring of Senior Year):<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition, the following mathematics courses are pre-requisites for core curriculum physics courses:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Physics with Astronomy emphasis majors are also required to engage in an original research project<\/a> which will meet Macalester\u2019s Capstone requirement. A Capstone in physics consists of a talk presented during physics seminar spring of senior year, and a written paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Many physics courses require prerequisites or co-requisites. Please consult the course dependency charts<\/a> for the major and the major with an astronomy emphasis. Sample schedules<\/a> are also available for students considering the physics major.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is strongly recommended that Astronomy emphasis students take PHYS 481 (Quantum Mechanics) <\/p>\n\n\n\n The department also offers a minor consisting of 5 courses:<\/p>\n\n\n\n * Note that MATH 135, (Applied Multivariable Calculus I), and MATH 137, (Applied Multivariable Calculus II) are pre\/co-requisites for PHYS 226\/227.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Physics major The Physics major is at a minimum comprised of nine 4-credit courses: Three terms of a 1-credit course (including Spring of Senior Year): In addition, the following mathematics courses are pre-requisites for core curriculum physics courses: Physics majors are also required to engage in an original research project which will meet Macalester\u2019s Capstone requirement. […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":913,"featured_media":0,"parent":92,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-102","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/913"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1493,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102\/revisions\/1493"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/92"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Physics with Astronomy emphasis major<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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