Charting Your Courses
Flowchart of Prerequisites
Recommended Course Sequences
Note that these are simply suggestions; any sequence consistent with the prerequisites shown above can be done. We've marked the elective as PHY360 for simplicity, but it could be any approved elective. We've likewise marked PHY117, but you could substitute PHY115. The two-credit course PHY399 would typically be taken senior year in whichever semester it's offered that year.
Note that the three-year schedule (labeled Beginning Spring of Second Year) would also work for a student who starts physics her first year and choses not to take physics courses during a junior year abroad.
Beginning Fall of First Year
| First Year | |
| Fall Semester | Spring Semester |
| PHY 117 Introductory Mechanics | PHY 118 General Physics II |
| Second Year | |
| Fall Semester | Spring Semester |
| PHY 210 Math Methods I PHY 240 Electronics |
PHY 215 Modern Physics I PHY 317 Classical Mechanics |
| Third Year | |
| Fall Semester | Spring Semester |
| PHY 315 Modern Physics II PHY 318 Electricity & Magnetism |
PHY 350 Advanced Lab PHY 327 Quantum Mechanics |
| Fourth Year | |
| Fall Semester | Spring Semester |
PHY 319 Thermal Physics |
PHY 360 (or any approved elective) |
Beginning Spring of First Year | |
| First Year | |
| Fall Semester | Spring Semester |
| PHY 117 Introductory Mechanics | |
| Second Year | |
| Fall Semester | Spring Semester |
| PHY 118 General Physics II PHY 210 Math Methods I |
PHY 215 Modern Physics I PHY 317 Classical Mechanics |
| Third Year | |
| Fall Semester | Spring Semester |
| PHY 315 Modern Physics II PHY 318 Electricity & Magnetism |
PHY 350 Advanced Lab PHY 327 Quantum Mechanics |
| Fourth Year | |
| Fall Semester | Spring Semester |
| PHY 240 Electronics PHY 319 Thermal Physics |
PHY 360 (or any approved elective) PHY 399 Topics in Physics |
Beginning Spring of Second Year | |
| Second Year | |
| Fall Semester | Spring Semester |
| PHY 117 Introductory Mechanics | PHY 118 General Physics II PHY 210 Math Methods |
| Third Year | |
| Fall Semester | Spring Semester |
| PHY 240 Electronics PHY 318 Electricity & Magnetism |
PHY 215 Modern Physics I PHY 317 Classical Mechanics |
| Fourth Year | |
| Fall Semester | Spring Semester |
| PHY 315 Modern Physics II PHY 319 Thermal Physics PHY 360 (or any approved elective) |
PHY 350 Advanced Lab |
