{"id":1296,"date":"2026-04-30T11:56:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T15:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mit-physics.lndo.site\/?page_id=1296"},"modified":"2026-05-01T16:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:13:08","slug":"subjects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/academic-programs\/subjects\/","title":{"rendered":"Subjects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The MIT Physics Department offers an outstanding course curriculum. We recommend that you acquaint yourself with the course offerings before choosing classes. It should be noted that our departmental policy is that all subjects are taught in-person, and require in-person attendance. The only exception is 8.041, which incorporates a blend of in-person and remote instruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>Spring 2026<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8a.html#8.006\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">8.006<\/a> \/\/ Exploring Physics Using Python\n<ul>\n<li>L01: F10-11 in 24-307 \u2014 Heine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8a.html#8.01L\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">8.011<\/a> \/\/ Physics I\n<ul>\n<li>L01: MW12-2 in 32-082 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/richard-milner\/\">Milner<\/a><\/li>\n<li>R01: F1-2 in 32-082 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/richard-milner\/\">Milner<\/a><\/li>\n<li>L02: MW10-12 in 32-082 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/physics-directory\/byron-drury-academic-staff\/\">Drury<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8a.html#8.02\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">8.02<\/a> \/\/ Physics II\n<ul>\n<li>L01: MW9-1030 in 26-152 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/anna-christina-eilers\/\">Eilers<\/a><\/li>\n<li>L01a: F9-10 in 26-152 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/anna-christina-eilers\/\">Eilers<\/a><\/li>\n<li>L02: MW1030-12 in 26-152 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/nuh-gedik\/\">Gedik<\/a><\/li>\n<li>L02a: F11-12 in 26-152 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/nuh-gedik\/\">Gedik<\/a><\/li>\n<li>L03: MW12-130 in 26-152 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/physics-directory\/michelle-tomasik\/\">Tomasik<\/a><\/li>\n<li>L03a: F12-1 in 26-152 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/physics-directory\/michelle-tomasik\/\">Tomasik<\/a><\/li>\n<li>L04: MW130-3 in 26-152 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/kevin-burdge\/\">Burdge<\/a><\/li>\n<li>L04a: F2-3 in 26-152 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/kevin-burdge\/\">Burdge<\/a><\/li>\n<li>L05: MW3-430 in 26-152 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/salvatore-vitale\/\">Vitale<\/a><\/li>\n<li>L05a: F3-4 in 26-152 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/salvatore-vitale\/\">Vitale<\/a><\/li>\n<li>L06: TR9-1030 in 26-152 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/brooke-russell\/\">Russell<\/a>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>L06a: F10-11 in 26-152 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/brooke-russell\/\">Russell<\/a><\/li>\n<li>L07: TR11-1230 in 26-152 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/michael-mcdonald\/\">McDonald<\/a><\/li>\n<li>L07a: F11-12 in 32-082 \u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/michael-mcdonald\/\">McDonald<\/a><\/li>\n<li>L08: TR1-230 in 26-152 \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/eluned-smith\/\">Smith<\/a><\/li>\n<li>L08a: F1-2 in 26-152 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/eluned-smith\/\">Smith<\/a><\/li>\n<li>L09: TR3-430 in 26-152 \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/eluned-smith\/\">Smith<\/a><\/li>\n<li>L09a: F3-4 in 32-082 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/eluned-smith\/\">Smith<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8a.html#8.022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">8.022<\/a> \/\/ Physics II\n<ul>\n<li>L01: MW230-4 in 6-120 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/gian-michele-innocenti\/\">Innocenti<\/a><\/li>\n<li>R01: TR10-11 in 26-314 \u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/ore-gottlieb\/\">Gottlieb<\/a><\/li>\n<li>R02: TR11-12 in 26-314 \u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/ore-gottlieb\/\">Gottlieb<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8a.html#8.03\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">8.03<\/a> \/\/ Physics III\n<ul>\n<li>L01: TR130-3 in 32-082 \u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/raymond-ashoori\/\">Ashoori<\/a><\/li>\n<li>R01: MW1-2 in 56-114 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/long-ju\/\">Ju<\/a><\/li>\n<li>R02: MW2-3 in 56-114 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/long-ju\/\">Ju<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8a.html#8.04\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">8.04<\/a> \/\/ Quantum Physics I\n<ul>\n<li>L01: MW930-11 in 6-120 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/vladan-vuletic\/\">Vuletic<\/a><\/li>\n<li>R01: TR10-11 in 4-257 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/marin-soljacic\/\">Soljacic<\/a><\/li>\n<li>R02: TR11-12 in 4-257 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/marin-soljacic\/\">Soljacic<\/a><\/li>\n<li>R03: TR1-2 in 26-322 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/marin-soljacic\/\">Shanahan<\/a><\/li>\n<li>R04: TR2-3 in 26-322 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/marin-soljacic\/\">Shanahan<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8a.html#8.044\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">8.044<\/a> \/\/ Statistical Physics I\n<ul>\n<li>L01: TR11-1230 in 6-120 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/richard-fletcher\/\">Fletcher<\/a><\/li>\n<li>R01: MW10-11 in 26-204 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/martin-zwierlein\/\">Zwierlein<\/a><\/li>\n<li>R02: MW11-12 in 26-204 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/martin-zwierlein\/\">Zwierlein<\/a><\/li>\n<li>R03: MW2-3 in 26-322 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/max-metlitski\/\">Metlitski<\/a><\/li>\n<li>R04: MW3-4 in 26-322 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/max-metlitski\/\">Metlitski<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8a.html#8.051\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">8.051<\/a> \/\/ Quantum Physics II\n<ul>\n<li>L01: MW10-11 in 56-114 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/soonwon-choi\/\">Choi<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8a.html#8.06\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">8.06<\/a> \/\/ Quantum Physics III\n<ul>\n<li>L01: TR930-11 in 6-120 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/mikhail-ivanov\/\">Ivanov<\/a><\/li>\n<li>R01: MW10-11 in 26-322 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/shu-heng-shao\/\">Shao<\/a><\/li>\n<li>R02: MW11-12 in 26-322 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/shu-heng-shao\/\">Shao<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8a.html#8.09\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">8.09\/8.309<\/a> \/\/ Classical Mechanics III\n<ul>\n<li>L01: TR930-11 in 3-370 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/iain-stewart\/\">Stewart<\/a><\/li>\n<li>R01: F1-2 in 26-328 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/iain-stewart\/\">Stewart<\/a><\/li>\n<li>R02: F2-3 in 26-328 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/iain-stewart\/\">Stewart<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8a.html#8.13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">8.13<\/a> \/\/ Experimental Physics I\n<ul>\n<li>B01: TR9-12 in 4-361 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/gunther-roland\/\">Roland<\/a><\/li>\n<li>B02: TR2-5 in 4-361 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/janet-conrad\/\">Conrad<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8a.html#8.14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">8.14<\/a> \/\/ Experimental Physics II\n<ul>\n<li>B01: MW2-5 in 4-361 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/nikta-fakhri\/\">Fakhri<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8a.html#8.16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">8.16\/8.316<\/a> \/\/ Data Science in Physics\n<ul>\n<li>L01: MW230-4 in 36-112 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/philip-harris\/\">Harris<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8a.html#8.21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">8.21<\/a> \/\/ Physics of Energy\n<ul>\n<li>L01: MW230-4 in 26-328 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/matthew-evans\/\">Evans<\/a><\/li>\n<li>R01: TR3-4 in 2-146 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/matthew-evans\/\">Evans<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8a.html#8.226\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">8.226<\/a> \/\/ Forty-three Orders of Magnitude\n<ul>\n<li>L01a: R1-230 in 5-231 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/jeff-gore\/\">Gore<\/a><\/li>\n<li>L01: T1-230 in 5-232 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/jeff-gore\/\">Gore<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8a.html#8.251\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">8.251<\/a> \/\/ String Theory for Undergraduates\n<ul>\n<li>L01: MW130-3 in 37-212 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/barton-zwiebach\/\">Zwiebach<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8a.html#8.282\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">8.282J<\/a> \/\/ Introduction to Astronomy\n<ul>\n<li>L01: TR1-230 in 4-231 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/max-tegmark\/\">Tegmark<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8a.html#8.292\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">8.292J<\/a> \/\/ Introduction to Astronomy\n<ul>\n<li>L01: TR1-230 in 4-231 \u2014 Bourouiba<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8b.html#8.309\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">8.309<\/a> \/\/ Classical Mechanics III\n<ul>\n<li>See 8.09 above<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8b.html#8.311\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">8.311<\/a> \/\/ Electromagnetic Theory I\n<ul>\n<li>L01: MW1030-12 in 5-217 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/liang-fu\/\">Fu<\/a><\/li>\n<li>R01: T11-12 in 4-265 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/liang-fu\/\">Fu<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8b.html#8.316\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">8.316<\/a> \/\/ Electromagnetic Theory I\n<ul>\n<li>See 8.16 above<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8b.html#8.323\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">8.323<\/a> \/\/ Relativistic Quantum Field Theory I\n<ul>\n<li>L01: MW430-6 in 6-120 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/hong-liu\/\">Liu<\/a><\/li>\n<li>R01: F930-1030 in 4-163 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/hong-liu\/\">Liu<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8b.html#8.325\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">8.325<\/a> \/\/ Relativistic Quantum Field Theory III\n<ul>\n<li>L01: TR930-11 in 4-261 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/daniel-harlow\/\">Harlow<\/a><\/li>\n<li>R01: F10-11 in 26-322 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/daniel-harlow\/\">Harlow<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8b.html#8.334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">8.334<\/a> \/\/ Statistical Mechanics II\n<ul>\n<li>L01: MW230-4 in 2-105 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/mehran-kardar\/\">Kardar<\/a><\/li>\n<li>R01: F230-4 in 2-105 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/mehran-kardar\/\">Kardar<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8b.html#8.371\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">8.371J<\/a> \/\/ Quantum Information Science\n<ul>\n<li>L01: MW930-11 in 4-163 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/isaac-chuang\/\">Chuang<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8b.html#8.396\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">8.396J<\/a> \/\/ Leadership and Professional Strategies &amp; Skills Training (LEAPS), Part I: Advancing Your Professional Strategies and Skills\n<ul>\n<li>L01: TR930-11 in 32-082 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/anna-frebel\/\">Frebel<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8b.html#8.397\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">8.397J<\/a> \/\/ Leadership and Professional Strategies &amp; Skills Training (LEAPS), Part II: Developing Your Leadership Competencies\n<ul>\n<li>L01: TR930-11 in 32-082 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/anna-frebel\/\">Frebel<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8b.html#8.398\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">8.398<\/a> \/\/ Doctoral Seminar in Physics\n<ul>\n<li>L01: W12-1 in 26-414 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/kiyoshi-masui\/\">Masui<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8b.html#8.421\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">8.421<\/a> \/\/ Atomic and Optical Physics I\n<ul>\n<li>L01: TR1-230 in 4-149 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/wolfgang-ketterle\/\">Ketterle<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8b.html#8.431\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">8.431J<\/a> \/\/ Nonlinear Optics\n<ul>\n<li>L01: MW3-430 in 36-372 &#8211; TBD<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8b.html#8.512\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">8.512<\/a> \/\/ Theory of Solids II\n<ul>\n<li>L01: TR1-230 in 4-159 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/leonid-levitov\/\">Levitov<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8b.html#8.514\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">8.514<\/a> \/\/ Strongly Correlated Systems in Condensed Matter Physics\n<ul>\n<li>L01: TR230-4 in 26-314 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/senthil-todadri\/\">Todadri<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8b.html#8.582\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">8.582<\/a> \/\/ Selected Topics in Condensed Matter Physics\n<ul>\n<li>L01: WF230-4 in 56-154 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/xiao-gang-wen\/\">Wen<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8b.html#8.614\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">8.614J<\/a> \/\/ Introduction to Plasma Physics II\n<ul>\n<li>L01: TR1230-2 in NW16-213 &#8211; TBD<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8b.html#8.711\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">8.711<\/a> \/\/ Nuclear Physics\n<ul>\n<li>L01: TR1-230 in 26-328 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/ronald-garcia-ruiz\/\">Garcia Ruiz<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8b.html#8.750\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">8.750J<\/a> \/\/ Symmetry and its Applications to Machine Learning (New)\n<ul>\n<li>L01: MW230-4 in 32-141 &#8211; TBD<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8b.html#8.901\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">8.901<\/a> \/\/ Astrophysics I\n<ul>\n<li>L01: MW1-230 in 4-261 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/scott-hughes\/\">Hughes<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8b.html#8.962\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">8.962<\/a> \/\/ General Relativity\n<ul>\n<li>L01: TR230-4 in 4-163 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/edmund-bertschinger\/\">Bertschinger<\/a><\/li>\n<li>R01: M4-5 in 4-149 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/edmund-bertschinger\/\">Bertschinger<\/a><\/li>\n<li>R02: F11-12 in 4-153 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/edmund-bertschinger\/\">Bertschinger<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8b.html#8.998\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">8.998<\/a> \/\/ Teaching and Mentoring MIT Students\n<ul>\n<li>L01: M11-12 in 13-3101 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/joseph-formaggio\/\">Formaggio<\/a><\/li>\n<li>L02: T1-2 in 13-1143 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/joseph-formaggio\/\">Formaggio<\/a><\/li>\n<li>B01: R1-2 in 13-1143 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/joseph-formaggio\/\">Formaggio<\/a><\/li>\n<li>B02: F11-12 in 13-1143 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/joseph-formaggio\/\">Formaggio<\/a><\/li>\n<li>B03: F1-2 in 13-1143 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/joseph-formaggio\/\">Formaggio<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>Fall 2026<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>8.01 \/\/ Physics I\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>L1a: F9-10 in 26-152 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/krishna-rajagopal\">Rajagopal<\/a>, Coordinator<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>L1: MW9-1030 in  26-152 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/anna-christina-eilers\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"15485\">Eilers<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>L2a: F11-12 in 26-152 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/max-tegmark\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"1613\">Tegmark<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>L2: MW1030-12 in 26-152 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/brooke-russell\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"21530\">Russell<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>L3a: F1-2 in 26-152 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/physics-directory\/michelle-tomasik\/\" type=\"page\" id=\"6708\">Tomasik<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>L3: MW1-230 in 26-152 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/christoph-paus\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"1595\">Paus<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>L4a: F3-4 in 26-152 &#8211; TBA<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>L4: MW3-430 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/kevin-burdge\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"21490\">Burdge<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>L5a: F10-11 in 26-152 &#8211; TBD<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>L5: TR9-1030 in 26-152 &#8211; TBD<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>L6a: F12-1 in 26-152 &#8211; TBD<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>L6: TR11-1230 in 26-152 &#8211; TBD<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>L7a: F1-2 in 26-152 &#8211; TBD<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>L7: TR1-230 in 26-152 &#8211; TBD<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>L8a: F4-5 in 26-152 &#8211; TBD<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>L8: TR3-430 in 26-152 &#8211; TBD<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8.012 \/\/ Physics I\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>L1: TR 9-1030 in 6-120 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/marin-soljacic\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"1610\">Soljacic<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>R1: MW10-11 in 26-204 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/sarah-millholland\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"12439\">Millholland<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>R2: MW11-12 in 26-204 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/sarah-millholland\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"12439\">Millholland<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>R3: MW1-2 in 26-314 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/boleslaw-wyslouch\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"1625\">Wyslouch<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>R4: MW2-3 in 26-314 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/boleslaw-wyslouch\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"1625\">Wyslouch<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8.01L \/\/ Physics I (Note: 8.01L continues into IAP)\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>L1a: F11-12 in 32-082 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/richard-milner\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"2350\">Milner<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>L1: TR930-11 in 32-082 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/physics-directory\/byron-drury-academic-staff\/\" type=\"page\" id=\"16226\">Drury<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8.02 \/\/ Physics II\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>L1a: F11-12 in 32-082 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/ronald-garcia-ruiz\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"1548\">Garcia Ruiz<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>L1: MW9-1030 in 32-082 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/ronald-garcia-ruiz\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"1548\">Garcia Ruiz<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>L2a: F9-10 in 32-082 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/physics-directory\/alex-shvonski-academic-staff\/\" type=\"page\" id=\"16221\">Shvonski<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>L2: MW1030-12 in 32-082 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/physics-directory\/alex-shvonski-academic-staff\/\" type=\"page\" id=\"16221\">Shvonski<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8.021 \/\/ Physics II\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>L1: TR1-230 in 35-310 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/joseph-formaggio\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"1543\">Formaggio<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>R1: W1-2 in 35-310 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/joseph-formaggio\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"1543\">Formaggio<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>B1: F11-12 in 26-210 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/joseph-formaggio\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"1543\">Formaggio<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8.022 \/\/ Physics II\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>L1: TR2-230 in 6-120 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/gian-michele-innocenti\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"17485\">Innocenti<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>R1: MW10-11 in 2-143 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/zhurun-judy-ji\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"21262\">Ji<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>R2: MW11-12 in 2-143 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/zhurun-judy-ji\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"21262\">Ji<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8.03 \/\/ Physics III\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>L1: TR1130-1 in 6-120 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/raymond-ashoori\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"2081\">Ashoori<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>R1: MW10-11 in 26-314 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/daniel-harlow\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/daniel-harlow\">Harlow<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>R2: MW11-12 in 26-314 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/daniel-harlow\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/daniel-harlow\">Harlow<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>R3: MW1-2 in 26-142 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/wolfgang-ketterle\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"1573\">Ketterle<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>R4: MW2-3 in 26-142 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/wolfgang-ketterle\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"1573\">Ketterle<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8.033 \/\/ Relativity\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>L1: MW2-330 in 6-120 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/scott-hughes\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"1560\">Hughes<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>R1: TR1-2 in 34-304 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/lina-necib\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"4068\">Necib<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>R2: TR2-3 in 34-303 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/ore-gottlieb\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"22345\">Gottlieb<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8.041 \/\/ Quantum Physics I\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>R1: TR11-12 in 4-231 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/barton-zwiebach\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"1627\">Zwiebach<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8.05 \/\/ Quantum Physics II\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>L1: MW1230-2 in 6-120 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/william-detmold\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"1536\">Detmold<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>R1: TR10-11 in 4-149 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/salvatore-vitale\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"1617\">Vitale<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>R2: TR11-12 in 4-145 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/salvatore-vitale\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"1617\">Vitale<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>R3: TR1-2 in 26-314 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/lina-necib\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"4068\">Necib<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>R4: TR2-3 in 26-314 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/lina-necib\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"4068\">Necib<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8.07 \/\/ Electromagnetism II\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>L1: MW1030-12 in 3-442 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/shu-heng-shao\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"18729\">Shao<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>R1: MT1-2 in 34-302 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/riccardo-comin\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"1532\">Comin<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8.13 \/\/ Experimental Physics I\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>B1: MW9-12 in 4-361 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/gunther-roland\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"1603\">Roland<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>B2: MW2-5 in 4-361 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/gunther-roland\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"1603\">Roland<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>B3: TR9-12 in 4-361 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/gunther-roland\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"1603\">Roland<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>B4: TR2-5 in 4-361 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/gunther-roland\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"1603\">Roland<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8.231 \/\/ Physics of Solids I\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>L1: TR1-230 in 4-261 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/pablo-jarillo-herrero\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"1564\">Jarillo-Herrero<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>R1: F2-3 in 2-135 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/pablo-jarillo-herrero\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"1564\">Jarillo-Herrero<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8.284 \/\/ Modern Astrophysics\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>L1: TR2-330 in 4-145 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/news\/tag\/michael-mcdonald\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"146\">McDonald<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8.286 \/\/ The Early Universe\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>L1: MW11-1230 in 2-132 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/alan-guth\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"1554\">Guth<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8.287J \/\/ Observational Techniques of Optical Astronomy (Same subject as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m12a.html#12.410\">12.410[J]<\/a>)\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>L1: MWF2-3 IN 55-110 &#8211; Person\/Teague<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>B1: M7-9PM IN 54-527 &#8211; Person\/Teague<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8.288 \/\/ Observational Stellar Archaeology\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>L1: TR9-11 IN 4-253 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/anna-frebel\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"1544\">Frebel<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8.290J \/\/ Extrasolar Planets: Physics and Detection Techniques (Same subject as 12.425[J]; meets with 12.625)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8.321 \/\/ Quantum Theory I\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>L1: MW1030-12 in 56-114 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/max-metlitski\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"1589\">Metlitski<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>R1: T3-4 in 26-322 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/max-metlitski\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"1589\">Metlitski<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>R2: R1-2 in 24-307 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/max-metlitski\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"1589\">Metlitski<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8.324 \/\/ Relativistic Quantum Field Theory II\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>L1: MW430-6 in 56-154 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/hong-liu\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"1582\">Liu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>R1: F10-11 in 26-328 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/hong-liu\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"1582\">Liu<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8.333 \/\/ Statistical Mechanics I\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>L1: MW230-4 in 32-155 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/senthil-todadri\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"1616\">Todadri<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>R1: F230-4 in 32-155 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/senthil-todadri\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"1616\">Todadri<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8.370J \/\/ Quantum Computation (Same subject as 2.111[J], 6.6410[J], 18.435[J])\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>L1: TR1-230 in 54-100 &#8211; S. Lloyd<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8.372J \/\/ Quantum Information Science III (Same subject as 18.438[J])\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>T1: TR230-4 in 2-136 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/aram-harrow\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"1557\">Harrow<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8.398 \/\/ Doctoral Seminar in Physics\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>L1: W12-1 in 26-414 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/phiala-shanahan\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"1607\">Shanahan<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8.422 \/\/ Atomic and Optical Physics II\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>L1: MW1-230 in 32-124 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/martin-zwierlein\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"1628\">Zwierlein<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8.511 \/\/ Theory of Solids I\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>L1: MW1-230 in 2-105 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/leonid-levitov\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"1580\">Levitov<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8.513 \/\/ Many-Body Theory for Condensed Matter Systems\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>T1: TR230-4 in 2-132 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/xiao-gang-wen\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"1621\">Wen<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8.591J \/\/ Systems Biology (Same subject as 7.81[J]; meets with 7.32)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8.592J \/\/ Statistical Physics in Biology (Same subject as HST.452[J])\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>T1: TR930-11 in 26-314 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/mehran-kardar\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"1571\">Kardar<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8.613J \/\/ Introduction to Plasma Physics I (Same subject as 22.611[J])\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>L1: TR3-430 in NW14-1112 &#8211; Tynan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8.670J \/\/ Principles of Plasma Diagnostics (Same subject as 22.67[J])\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>L1: TR930-11 in NW17-218 &#8211; Whyte<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8.701 \/\/ Principles of Plasma Diagnostics\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>L1: TR130-3 in 8.205 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/michael-williams\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"1623\">Williams<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8.811 \/\/ Particle Physics\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>L1: MW1-230 in 8.205 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/eluned-smith\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"15543\">Smith<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8.851 \/\/ Effective Field Theory\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>L1: TR1030-12 in 2-151 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/iain-stewart\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"1611\">Stewart<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8.902 \/\/ Astrophysics II\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>L1: TR11-1230 in 4-261 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/mark-vogelsberger\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"1618\">Vogelsberger<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8.942 \/\/ Cosmology\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>L1: MW1-230 in 2-151 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/mikhail-ivanov\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"15625\">Ivanov<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8.998 \/\/ Teaching and Mentoring MIT Students\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>L1: M11-12 in 1-242 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/joseph-formaggio\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"1543\">Formaggio<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>L2: T1-2 in 1-273 &#8211; TBA<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>B1: R1-2 in 1-273 &#8211; TBA<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>B2: F11-12 in 1-273 &#8211; TBA<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>B3: F1-2 in 1-375 &#8211; TBA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/academic-programs\/8-tht-undergraduate-thesis-tutorial\/\">8.THT \/\/ Thesis Tutorial<\/a>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>T1: F11-1 in 2-142 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/janet-conrad\/\" type=\"faculty\" id=\"1533\">Conrad<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>IAP 2027<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>To be posted in Fall 2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>All Subjects<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\"><div class=\"container\">\n\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t    <div class=\"col\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"pullquote-block\">\n\t\t\t\t<blockquote>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p>Undergraduate Subjects<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"801\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.01 Physics I<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Fall &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/academic-programs\/prospective-undergrads\/#GIR\">GIR<\/a><br>Prereq: None<br>Units: 3-2-7<br>Credit cannot also be received for&nbsp;<a href=\"#8011\">8.011<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"#8012\">8.012<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"#801L\">8.01L<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/mESa.html#ES.801\">ES.801<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/mESa.html#ES.8012\">ES.8012<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Introduces classical mechanics. Space and time: straight-line kinematics; motion in a plane; forces and static equilibrium; particle dynamics, with force and conservation of momentum; relative inertial frames and non-inertial force; work, potential energy and conservation of energy; kinetic theory and the ideal gas; rigid bodies and rotational dynamics; vibrational motion; conservation of angular momentum; central force motions; fluid mechanics. Subject taught using the TEAL (Technology-Enabled Active Learning) format which features students working in groups of three, discussing concepts, solving problems, and doing table-top experiments with the aid of computer data acquisition and analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8011\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.011 Physics I<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Spring &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/academic-programs\/prospective-undergrads\/#GIR\">GIR<\/a><br>Prereq: Permission of instructor<br>Units: 5-0-7<br>Credit cannot also be received for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=1296&amp;action=edit#801\">8.01<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=1296&amp;action=edit#8012\">8.012<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=1296&amp;action=edit#801L\">8.01L<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/mESa.html#ES.801\">ES.801<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/mESa.html#ES.8012\">ES.8012<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Introduces classical mechanics. Space and time: straight-line kinematics; motion in a plane; forces and equilibrium; experimental basis of Newton&#8217;s laws; particle dynamics; universal gravitation; collisions and conservation laws; work and potential energy; vibrational motion; conservative forces; inertial forces and non-inertial frames; central force motions; rigid bodies and rotational dynamics. Designed for students with previous experience in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=8.01\">8.01<\/a>; the subject is designated as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=8.01\">8.01<\/a>&nbsp;on the transcript.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8012\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.012 Physics I<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Fall &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/academic-programs\/prospective-undergrads\/#GIR\">GIR<\/a><br>Prereq: None<br>Units: 5-0-7<br>Credit cannot also be received for&nbsp;<a href=\"#801\">8.01<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"#8011\">8.011<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"#801L\">8.01L<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/mESa.html#ES.801\">ES.801<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/mESa.html#ES.8012\">ES.8012<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elementary mechanics, presented in greater depth than in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=8.01\">8.01<\/a>. Newton&#8217;s laws, concepts of momentum, energy, angular momentum, rigid body motion, and non-inertial systems. Uses elementary calculus freely; concurrent registration in a math subject more advanced than&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=18.01\">18.01<\/a>&nbsp;is recommended. In addition to covering the theoretical subject matter, students complete a small experimental project of their own design. Freshmen admitted via AP or Math Diagnostic for Physics Placement results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"801L\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.01L Physics I<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Fall &amp; IAP &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/academic-programs\/prospective-undergrads\/#GIR\">GIR<\/a><br>Prereq: None<br>Units: 3-2-7<br>Credit cannot also be received for&nbsp;<a href=\"#801\">8.01<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"#8011\">8.011<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"#8012\">8.012<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/mESa.html#ES.801\">ES.801<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/mESa.html#ES.8012\">ES.8012<\/a><br>Ends late Jan.&nbsp;<i><b>+final<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Introduction to classical mechanics (see description under&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=8.01\">8.01<\/a>). Includes components of the TEAL (Technology-Enabled Active Learning) format. Material covered over a longer interval so that the subject is completed by the end of the IAP. Substantial emphasis given to reviewing and strengthening necessary mathematics tools, as well as basic physics concepts and problem-solving skills. Content, depth, and difficulty is otherwise identical to that of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=8.01\">8.01<\/a>. The subject is designated as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=8.01\">8.01<\/a>&nbsp;on the transcript.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"802\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.02 Physics II<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Fall, Spring &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/academic-programs\/prospective-undergrads\/#GIR\">GIR<\/a><br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a title=\"18.01, 18.01A, 18.014\" href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/search.cgi?search=&amp;cred=m1\">Calculus I (GIR)<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a title=\"8.01, 8.01L, 8.011, 8.012\" href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/search.cgi?search=&amp;cred=p1\">Physics I (GIR)<\/a><br>Units: 3-2-7<br>Credit cannot also be received for&nbsp;<a href=\"#8021\">8.021<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"#8022\">8.022<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/mESa.html#ES.802\">ES.802<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/mESa.html#ES.8022\">ES.8022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Introduction to electromagnetism and electrostatics: electric charge, Coulomb&#8217;s law, electric structure of matter; conductors and dielectrics. Concepts of electrostatic field and potential, electrostatic energy. Electric currents, magnetic fields and Ampere&#8217;s law. Magnetic materials. Time-varying fields and Faraday&#8217;s law of induction. Basic electric circuits. Electromagnetic waves and Maxwell&#8217;s equations. Subject taught using the TEAL (Technology Enabled Active Learning) studio format which utilizes small group interaction and current technology to help students develop intuition about, and conceptual models of, physical phenomena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8021\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.021 Physics II<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Fall &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/academic-programs\/prospective-undergrads\/#GIR\">GIR<\/a><br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a title=\"18.01, 18.01A, 18.014\" href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/search.cgi?search=&amp;cred=m1\">Calculus I (GIR)<\/a>,&nbsp;<a title=\"8.01, 8.01L, 8.011, 8.012\" href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/search.cgi?search=&amp;cred=p1\">Physics I (GIR)<\/a>, and permission of instructor<br>Units: 5-0-7<br>Credit cannot also be received for&nbsp;<a href=\"#802\">8.02<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"#8022\">8.022<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/mESa.html#ES.802\">ES.802<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/mESa.html#ES.8022\">ES.8022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Introduction to electromagnetism and electrostatics: electric charge, Coulomb&#8217;s law, electric structure of matter; conductors and dielectrics. Concepts of electrostatic field and potential, electrostatic energy. Electric currents, magnetic fields and Ampere&#8217;s law. Magnetic materials. Time-varying fields and Faraday&#8217;s law of induction. Basic electric circuits. Electromagnetic waves and Maxwell&#8217;s equations. Designed for students with previous experience in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=8.02\">8.02<\/a>; the subject is designated as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=8.02\">8.02<\/a>&nbsp;on the transcript. Enrollment limited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8022\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.022 Physics II<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Fall, Spring &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/academic-programs\/prospective-undergrads\/#GIR\">GIR<\/a><br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a title=\"8.01, 8.01L, 8.011, 8.012\" href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/search.cgi?search=&amp;cred=p1\">Physics I (GIR)<\/a>;&nbsp;<i>Coreq:&nbsp;<a title=\"18.02, 18.02A, 18.022, 18.023, 18.024\" href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/search.cgi?search=&amp;cred=m2\">Calculus II (GIR)<\/a><\/i><br>Units: 5-0-7<br>Credit cannot also be received for&nbsp;<a href=\"#802\">8.02<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"#8021\">8.021<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/mESa.html#ES.802\">ES.802<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/mESa.html#ES.8022\">ES.8022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parallel to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=8.02\">8.02<\/a>, but more advanced mathematically. Some knowledge of vector calculus assumed. Maxwell&#8217;s equations, in both differential and integral form. Electrostatic and magnetic vector potential. Properties of dielectrics and magnetic materials. In addition to the theoretical subject matter, several experiments in electricity and magnetism are performed by the students in the laboratory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"803\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.03 Physics III<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Fall, Spring &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/registrar.mit.edu\/faculty-curriculum-support\/faculty-curriculum-committees\/committee-curricula\/petitions\/restricted\">REST substitution<\/a><br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a title=\"18.02, 18.02A, 18.022, 18.023, 18.024\" href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/search.cgi?search=&amp;cred=m2\">Calculus II (GIR)<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a title=\"8.02, 8.021, 8.022\" href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/search.cgi?search=&amp;cred=p2\">Physics II (GIR)<\/a><br>Units: 5-0-7<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mechanical vibrations and waves; simple harmonic motion, superposition, forced vibrations and resonance, coupled oscillations, and normal modes; vibrations of continuous systems; reflection and refraction; phase and group velocity. Optics; wave solutions to Maxwell&#8217;s equations; polarization; Snell&#8217;s Law, interference, Huygens&#8217;s principle, Fraunhofer diffraction, and gratings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8033\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.033 Relativity<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Fall &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/registrar.mit.edu\/faculty-curriculum-support\/faculty-curriculum-committees\/committee-curricula\/petitions\/restricted\">REST substitution<\/a><br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a title=\"18.02, 18.02A, 18.022, 18.023, 18.024\" href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/search.cgi?search=&amp;cred=m2\">Calculus II (GIR)<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a title=\"8.02, 8.021, 8.022\" href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/search.cgi?search=&amp;cred=p2\">Physics II (GIR)<\/a><br>Units: 5-0-7<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Einstein&#8217;s postulates; consequences for simultaneity, time dilation, length contraction, and clock synchronization; Lorentz transformation; relativistic effects and paradoxes; Minkowski diagrams; invariants and four-vectors; momentum, energy, and mass; particle collisions. Relativity and electricity; Coulomb&#8217;s law; magnetic fields. Brief introduction to Newtonian cosmology. Introduction to some concepts of general relativity; principle of equivalence. The Schwarzchild metric; gravitational red shift; particle and light trajectories; geodesics; Shapiro delay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"804\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.04 Quantum Physics I<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Spring &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/registrar.mit.edu\/faculty-curriculum-support\/faculty-curriculum-committees\/committee-curricula\/petitions\/restricted\">REST substitution<\/a><br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"#803\">8.03<\/a>&nbsp;and (<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m18a.html#18.03\">18.03<\/a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m18a.html#18.032\">18.032<\/a>)<br>Units: 5-0-7<br>Credit cannot also be received for&nbsp;<a href=\"#8S04\">8.S04<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=8.041\">8.041<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Experimental basis of quantum physics: photoelectric effect, Compton scattering, photons, Franck-Hertz experiment, the Bohr atom, electron diffraction, deBroglie waves, and wave-particle duality of matter and light. Introduction to wave mechanics: Schroedinger&#8217;s equation, wave functions, wave packets, probability amplitudes, stationary states, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, and zero-point energies. Solutions to Schroedinger&#8217;s equation in one dimension: transmission and reflection at a barrier, barrier penetration, potential wells, the simple harmonic oscillator. Schroedinger&#8217;s equation in three dimensions: central potentials and introduction to hydrogenic systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8S04\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.041 Quantum Physics I<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Fall &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/registrar.mit.edu\/faculty-curriculum-support\/faculty-curriculum-committees\/committee-curricula\/petitions\/restricted\">REST substitution<\/a><br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"#803\">8.03<\/a>&nbsp;and (<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m18a.html#18.03\">18.03<\/a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m18a.html#18.032\">18.032<\/a>)<br>Units: 2-0-10<br>Credit cannot also be received for&nbsp;<a href=\"#804\">8.04<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blended version of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=8.04\">8.04<\/a>&nbsp;using a combination of online and in-person instruction. Covers experimental basis of quantum physics: photoelectric effect, Compton scattering, photons, Franck-Hertz experiment, the Bohr atom, electron diffraction, deBroglie waves, and wave-particle duality of matter and light. Introduction to wave mechanics: Schroedinger&#8217;s equation, wave functions, wave packets, probability amplitudes, stationary states, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, and zero-point energies. Solutions to Schroedinger&#8217;s equation in one dimension: transmission and reflection at a barrier, barrier penetration, potential wells, the simple harmonic oscillator. Schroedinger&#8217;s equation in three dimensions: central potentials and introduction to hydrogenic systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8044\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.044 Statistical Physics I<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Spring<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"#803\">8.03<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m18a.html#18.03\">18.03<\/a><br>Units: 5-0-7<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Introduction to probability, statistical mechanics, and thermodynamics. Random variables, joint and conditional probability densities, and functions of a random variable. Concepts of macroscopic variables and thermodynamic equilibrium, fundamental assumption of statistical mechanics, microcanonical and canonical ensembles. First, second, and third laws of thermodynamics. Numerous examples illustrating a wide variety of physical phenomena such as magnetism, polyatomic gases, thermal radiation, electrons in solids, and noise in electronic devices. Concurrent enrollment in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=8.04\">8.04<\/a>&nbsp;is recommended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"805\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.05 Quantum Physics II<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Fall<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"#804\">8.04<\/a> or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=8.041\">8.041<\/a><br>Units: 5-0-7<br>Credit cannot also be received for&nbsp;<a href=\"#8051\">8.051<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vector spaces, linear operators, and matrix representations.&nbsp; Inner products and adjoint operators. Commutator identities. Dirac&#8217;s Bra-kets. Uncertainty principle and energy-time version. Spectral theorem and complete set of commuting observables. Schrodinger and Heisenberg pictures.&nbsp; Axioms of quantum mechanics. Coherent states and nuclear magnetic resonance. Multiparticle states and tensor products. Quantum teleportation, EPR and Bell inequalities. Angular momentum and central potentials. Addition of angular momentum. Density matrices, pure and mixed states, decoherence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8051\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.051 Quantum Physics II<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Spring<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"#804\">8.04<\/a>&nbsp;and permission of instructor<br>Units: 2-0-10<br>Credit cannot also be received for&nbsp;<a href=\"#805\">8.05<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blended version of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=8.05\">8.05<\/a>&nbsp;using a combination of online and in-person instruction. Together with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=8.06\">8.06<\/a>&nbsp;covers quantum physics with applications drawn from modern physics. General formalism of quantum mechanics: states, operators, Dirac notation, representations, measurement theory. Harmonic oscillator: operator algebra, states. Quantum mechanics in three dimensions: central potentials and the radial equation, bound and scattering states, qualitative analysis of wave functions. Angular momentum: operators, commutator algebra, eigenvalues and eigenstates, spherical harmonics. Spin: Stern-Gerlach devices and measurements, nuclear magnetic resonance, spin and statistics. Addition of angular momentum: Clebsch-Gordan series and coefficients, spin systems, and allotropic forms of hydrogen. Limited to 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"806\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.06 Quantum Physics III<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Spring<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"#805\">8.05<\/a><br>Units: 5-0-7<br><br>Continuation of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=8.05\">8.05<\/a>. Units: natural units, scales of microscopic phenomena, applications. Time-independent approximation methods: degenerate and nondegenerate perturbation theory, variational method, Born-Oppenheimer approximation, applications to atomic and molecular systems. The structure of one- and two-electron atoms: overview, spin-orbit and relativistic corrections, fine structure, variational approximation, screening, Zeeman and Stark effects. Charged particles in a magnetic field: Landau levels and integer quantum hall effect. Scattering: general principles, partial waves, review of one-dimension, low-energy approximations, resonance, Born approximation. Time-dependent perturbation theory. Students research and write a paper on a topic related to the content of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=8.05\">8.05<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=8.06\">8.06<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"807\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.07 Electromagnetism II<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Fall<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"#803\">8.03<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m18a.html#18.03\">18.03<\/a><br>Units: 4-0-8<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Survey of basic electromagnetic phenomena: electrostatics, magnetostatics; electromagnetic properties of matter. Time-dependent electromagnetic fields and Maxwell&#8217;s equations. Electromagnetic waves, emission, absorption, and scattering of radiation. Relativistic electrodynamics and mechanics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"808\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.08 Statistical Physics II<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Spring<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"#8044\">8.044<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"#805\">8.05<\/a><br>Units: 4-0-8<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Probability distributions for classical and quantum systems. Microcanonical, canonical, and grand canonical partition-functions and associated thermodynamic potentials. Conditions of thermodynamic equilibrium for homogenous and heterogenous systems. Applications: non-interacting Bose and Fermi gases; mean field theories for real gases, binary mixtures, magnetic systems, polymer solutions; phase and reaction equilibria, critical phenomena. Fluctuations, correlation functions and susceptibilities, and Kubo formulae. Evolution of distribution functions: Boltzmann and Smoluchowski equations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"809\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.09 Classical Mechanics III<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Fall, Spring<br>(Subject meets with&nbsp;<a href=\"#8309\">8.309<\/a>)<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"#8223\">8.223<\/a><br>Units: 4-0-8<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Covers Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics, systems with constraints, rigid body dynamics, vibrations, central forces, Hamilton-Jacobi theory, action-angle variables, perturbation theory, and continuous systems. Provides an introduction to ideal and viscous fluid mechanics, including turbulence, as well as an introduction to nonlinear dynamics, including chaos. Students taking graduate version complete different assignments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Undergraduate Laboratory and Special Project Subjects<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"810\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.10 Exploring and Communicating Physics (and other) Frontiers<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Fall (<em>Not offered regularly; consult department<\/em>)<br>Prereq: None<br>Units: 2-0-0 [P\/D\/F]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Features a series of 12 interactive sessions that span a wide variety of topics at the frontiers of science &#8211; e.g., quantum computing, dark matter, the nature of time &#8211; and encourage independent thinking. Discussions draw from the professor&#8217;s published pieces in periodicals as well as short excerpts from his books.&nbsp; Also discusses, through case studies, the process of writing and rewriting. Subject can count toward the 9-unit discovery-focused credit limit for first year students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"813\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.13 Experimental Physics I<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Fall, Spring &#8211; Institute Lab<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"#804\">8.04<\/a><br>Units: 0-6-12<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First in a two-term advanced laboratory sequence in modern physics focusing on the professional and personal development of the student as a scientist through the medium of experimental physics. Experimental options cover special relativity, experimental foundations of quantum mechanics, atomic structure and optics, statistical mechanics, and nuclear and particle physics. Uses modern physics experiments to develop laboratory technique, systematic troubleshooting, professional scientific attitude, data analysis skills and reasoning about uncertainty. Provides extensive training in oral and written communication methods. Limited to 12 students per section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"814\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.14 Experimental Physics II<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Spring<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"#805\">8.05<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"#813\">8.13<\/a><br>Units: 0-6-12<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Second in a two-term advanced laboratory sequence in modern physics focusing on the professional and personal development of the student as a scientist through the medium of experimental physics. Experimental options cover special relativity, experimental foundations of quantum mechanics, atomic structure and optics, statistical mechanics, and nuclear and particle physics. Uses modern physics experiments to develop laboratory technique, systematic troubleshooting, professional scientific attitude, data analysis skills, and reasoning about uncertainty; provides extensive training in oral and written communication methods. Continues 8.13 practice in these skills using more advanced experiments and adds an exploratory project element in which students develop an experiment from the proposal and design stage to a final presentation of results in a poster session. Limited to 12 students per section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"814\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.16 Data Science in Physics<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Spring<br>(Subject meets with&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8b.html#8.316\">8.316<\/a>)<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8a.html#8.04\">8.04<\/a>&nbsp;and (<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m6a.html#6.100A\">6.100A<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m6a.html#6.100B\">6.100B<\/a>, or permission of instructor)<br>Units: 3-0-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aims to present modern computational methods by providing realistic, contemporary examples of how these computational methods apply to physics research. Designed around research modules in which each module provides experience with a specific scientific challenge. Modules include: analyzing LIGO open data; measuring electroweak boson to quark decays; understanding the cosmic microwave background; and lattice QCD\/Ising model. Experience in Python helpful but not required. Lectures are viewed outside of class; in-class time is dedicated to problem-solving and discussion. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"818\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.18 Research Problems in Undergraduate Physics<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Fall, IAP, Spring, Summer (Can be repeated for credit)<br>Prereq: Permission of instructor<br>Units arranged [P\/D\/F]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Opportunity for undergraduates to engage in experimental or theoretical research under the supervision of a staff member. Specific approval required in each case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"819\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.19 Readings in Physics<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Fall, IAP, Spring, Summer (Can be repeated for credit)<br>Prereq: None<br>Units arranged [P\/D\/F]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Supervised reading and library work. Choice of material and allotment of time according to individual needs. For students who want to do work not provided for in the regular subjects. Specific approval required in each case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Undergraduate Elective Subjects<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"820\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.20 Introduction to Special Relativity<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; IAP &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/registrar.mit.edu\/faculty-curriculum-support\/faculty-curriculum-committees\/committee-curricula\/petitions\/restricted\">REST substitution<\/a><br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a title=\"18.01, 18.01A, 18.014\" href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/search.cgi?search=&amp;cred=m1\">Calculus I (GIR)<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a title=\"8.01, 8.01L, 8.011, 8.012\" href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/search.cgi?search=&amp;cred=p1\">Physics I (GIR)<\/a><br>Units: 2-0-7<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Introduces the basic ideas and equations of Einstein&#8217;s special theory of relativity. Topics include Lorentz transformations, length contraction and time dilation, four vectors, Lorentz invariants, relativistic energy and momentum, relativistic kinematics, Doppler shift, space-time diagrams, relativity paradoxes, and some concepts of general relativity. Intended for freshmen and sophomores. Not usable as a restricted elective by Physics majors. Credit cannot be received for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=8.20\">8.20<\/a>&nbsp;if credit for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=8.033\">8.033<\/a>&nbsp;is or has been received in the same or prior terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"821\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.21 Physics of Energy<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Spring &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/registrar.mit.edu\/faculty-curriculum-support\/faculty-curriculum-committees\/committee-curricula\/petitions\/restricted\">REST substitution<\/a><br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a title=\"18.02, 18.02A, 18.022, 18.023, 18.024\" href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/search.cgi?search=&amp;cred=m2\">Calculus II (GIR)<\/a>,&nbsp;<a title=\"3.091, 5.111, 5.112\" href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/search.cgi?search=&amp;cred=c\">Chemistry (GIR)<\/a>, and&nbsp;<a title=\"8.02, 8.021, 8.022\" href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/search.cgi?search=&amp;cred=p2\">Physics II (GIR)<\/a><br>Units: 5-0-7<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A comprehensive introduction to the fundamental physics of energy systems that emphasizes quantitative analysis. Focuses on the fundamental physical principles underlying energy processes and on the application of these principles to practical calculations. Applies mechanics and electromagnetism to energy systems; introduces and applies basic ideas from thermodynamics, quantum mechanics, and nuclear physics. Examines energy sources, conversion, transport, losses, storage, conservation, and end uses. Analyzes the physics of side effects, such as global warming and radiation hazards. Provides students with technical tools and perspective to evaluate energy choices quantitatively at both national policy and personal levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8223\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.223 Classical Mechanics II<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; IAP<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a title=\"18.02, 18.02A, 18.022, 18.023, 18.024\" href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/search.cgi?search=&amp;cred=m2\">Calculus II (GIR)<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a title=\"8.01, 8.01L, 8.011, 8.012\" href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/search.cgi?search=&amp;cred=p1\">Physics I (GIR)<\/a><br>Units: 2-0-4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A broad, theoretical treatment of classical mechanics, useful in its own right for treating complex dynamical problems, but essential to understanding the foundations of quantum mechanics and statistical physics. Generalized coordinates, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations, canonical transformations, and Poisson brackets. Applications to continuous media. The relativistic Lagrangian and Maxwell&#8217;s equations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8224\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.224 Exploring Black Holes: General Relativity and Astrophysics<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Fall (Not offered regularly; consult department)<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"#8033\">8.033<\/a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href=\"#820\">8.20<\/a><br>Units: 3-0-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Study of physical effects in the vicinity of a black hole as a basis for understanding general relativity, astrophysics, and elements of cosmology. Extension to current developments in theory and observation. Energy and momentum in flat space-time; the metric; curvature of space-time near rotating and nonrotating centers of attraction; trajectories and orbits of particles and light; elementary models of the Cosmos. Weekly meetings include an evening seminar and recitation. The last third of the term is reserved for collaborative research projects on topics such as the Global Positioning System, solar system tests of relativity, descending into a black hole, gravitational lensing, gravitational waves, Gravity Probe B, and more advanced models of the cosmos. Subject has online components that are open to selected MIT alumni. Alumni wishing to participate should contact Professor Bertschinger at edbert@mit.edu. Limited to 40.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8225\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.225[J] Einstein, Oppenheimer, Feynman: Physics in the 20th Century<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Fall &#8211; HASS Humanities<br>(Same subject as <a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/mSTSa.html#STS.042\">STS.042[J]<\/a>)<br>Prereq: None<br>Units: 3-0-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See description under subject&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=STS.042J\">STS.042[J]<\/a>. Enrollment limited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8226\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.226 Forty-three Orders of Magnitude<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Spring (Not offered regularly; consult department)<br>Prereq: (<a href=\"#804\">8.04<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"#8044\">8.044<\/a>) or permission of instructor<br>Units: 3-0-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Examines the widespread societal implications of current scientific discoveries in physics across forty-three orders of magnitude in length scale. Addresses topics ranging from climate change to nuclear nonproliferation. Students develop their ability to express concepts at a level accessible to the public and to present a well-reasoned argument on a topic that is a part of the national debate. Requires diverse writing assignments, including substantial papers. Enrollment limited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8226\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.228 Relativity II <\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; IAP<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8a.html#8.033\">8.033<\/a>&nbsp;or permission of instructor<br>Units: 2-0-4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A fast-paced and intensive introduction to general relativity, covering advanced topics beyond the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=8.033\">8.033<\/a>&nbsp;curriculum. Provides students with a foundation for research relying on knowledge of general relativity, including gravitational waves and cosmology. Additional topics in curvature, weak gravity, and cosmology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8231\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.231 Physics of Solids I<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Fall<br>Prereq: <a href=\"#8044\">8.044<\/a>;&nbsp;<i>Coreq:&nbsp;<a href=\"#805\">8.05<\/a><\/i><br>Units: 4-0-8<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Introduction to the basic concepts of the quantum theory of solids. Topics: periodic structure and symmetry of crystals; diffraction; reciprocal lattice; chemical bonding; lattice dynamics, phonons, thermal properties; free electron gas; model of metals; Bloch theorem and band structure, nearly free electron approximation; tight binding method; Fermi surface; semiconductors, electrons, holes, impurities; optical properties, excitons; and magnetism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8241\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.241 Introduction to Biological Physics<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Spring (Not offered regularly; consult department)<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a title=\"8.02, 8.021, 8.022\" href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/search.cgi?search=&amp;cred=p2\">Physics II (GIR)<\/a>&nbsp;and (<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=8.044\">8.044<\/a>&nbsp;or (<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=5.601\">5.601<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=5.602\">5.602<\/a>))<br>Units: 4-0-8<br>Credit cannot also be received for&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m20a.html#20.315\">20.315<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m20a.html#20.415\">20.415<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Introduces the main concepts of biological physics, with a focus on biophysical phenomena at the molecular and cellular scales. Presents the role of entropy and diffusive transport in living matter; challenges to life resulting from the highly viscous environment present at microscopic scales, including constraints on force, motion and transport within cells, tissues, and fluids; principles of how cellular machinery (e.g., molecular motors) can convert electro-chemical energy sources to mechanical forces and motion. Also covers polymer physics relevant to DNA and other biological polymers, including the study of configurations, fluctuations, rigidity, and entropic elasticity. Meets with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=20.315\">20.315<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=20.415\">20.415<\/a>&nbsp;when offered concurrently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8245\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.245[J] Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Spring (Not offered regularly; consult department)<br>(Same subject as&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m5a.html#5.003\">5.003[J]<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m10a.html#10.382\">10.382[J]<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/mHSTa.html#HST.439\">HST.439[J]<\/a>)<br>(Subject meets with&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m5a.html#5.002\">5.002[J]<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m10a.html#10.380\">10.380[J]<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/mHSTa.html#HST.438\">HST.438[J]<\/a>)<br>Prereq: None<br>Units: 2-0-1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See description under subject&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=HST.439J\">HST.439[J]<\/a>.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=HST.438\">HST.438[J]<\/a>&nbsp;intended for first-year students; all others should take&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=HST.439\">HST.439[J]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8251\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.251 String Theory for Undergraduates<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Spring (Not offered regularly; consult department)<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8a.html#8.033\">8.033<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8a.html#8.044\">8.044<\/a>, and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8a.html#8.05\">8.05<\/a><br>Units: 4-0-8<br>Credit cannot also be received for&nbsp;<a href=\"#8821\">8.821<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Introduction to the main concepts of string theory, i.e., quantum mechanics of a relativistic string. Develops aspects of string theory and makes it accessible to students familiar with basic electromagnetism and statistical mechanics, including the study of D-branes and string thermodynamics. Meets with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=8.821\">8.821<\/a>&nbsp;when offered concurrently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8276\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.276 Nuclear and Particle Physics<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Spring (Not offered regularly; consult department)<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"#8033\">8.033<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"#804\">8.04<\/a><br>Units: 4-0-8<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Presents a modern view of the fundamental structure of matter. Starting from the Standard Model, which views leptons and quarks as basic building blocks of matter, establishes the properties and interactions of these particles. Explores applications of this phenomenology to both particle and nuclear physics. Emphasizes current topics in nuclear and particle physics research at MIT. Intended for students with a basic knowledge of relativity and quantum physics concepts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8277\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.277 Introduction to Particle Accelerators<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Fall, IAP, Spring, Summer &#8211; Can be repeated for credit<br>(Not offered regularly; consult department)<br>Prereq: (<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m6a.html#6.013\">6.013<\/a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href=\"#807\">8.07<\/a>) and permission of instructor<br>Units arranged<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Principles of acceleration: beam properties; linear accelerators, synchrotrons, and storage rings. Accelerator technologies: radio frequency cavities, bending and focusing magnets, beam diagnostics. Particle beam optics and dynamics. Special topics: measures of accelerators performance in science, medicine and industry; synchrotron radiation sources; free electron lasers; high-energy colliders; and accelerators for radiation therapy. May be repeated for credit for a maximum of 12 units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8282\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.282[J] Introduction to Astronomy<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Spring &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/registrar.mit.edu\/faculty-curriculum-support\/faculty-curriculum-committees\/committee-curricula\/petitions\/restricted\">REST substitution<\/a><br>(Same subject as&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m12a.html#12.402\">12.402[J]<\/a>)<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a title=\"8.01, 8.01L, 8.011, 8.012\" href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/search.cgi?search=&amp;cred=p1\">Physics I (GIR)<\/a><br>Units: 3-0-6<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quantitative introduction to the physics of planets, stars, galaxies and our universe, from origin to ultimate fate, with emphasis on the physics tools and observational techniques that enable our understanding. Topics include our solar system, extrasolar planets; our Sun and other &#8220;normal&#8221; stars, star formation, evolution and death, supernovae, compact objects (white dwarfs, neutron stars, pulsars, stellar-mass black holes); galactic structure, star clusters, interstellar medium, dark matter; other galaxies, quasars, supermassive black holes, gravitational waves; cosmic large-scale structure, origin, evolution and fate of our universe, inflation, dark energy, cosmic microwave background radiation, gravitational lensing, 21cm tomography. Not usable as a restricted elective by Physics majors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8284\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.284 Modern Astrophysics<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Spring<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"#804\">8.04<\/a>;&nbsp;<i>Coreq:&nbsp;<a href=\"#805\">8.05<\/a><\/i><br>Units: 3-0-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Application of physics (Newtonian, statistical, and quantum mechanics; special and general relativity) to fundamental processes that occur in celestial objects. Includes main-sequence stars, collapsed stars (white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes), pulsars, galaxies, active galaxies, quasars, and cosmology. Electromagnetic and gravitational radiation signatures of astrophysical phenomena explored through examination of observational data. No prior knowledge of astronomy required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8286\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.286 The Early Universe<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Fall &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/registrar.mit.edu\/faculty-curriculum-support\/faculty-curriculum-committees\/committee-curricula\/petitions\/restricted\">REST substitution<\/a> (Not offered regularly; consult department)<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a title=\"8.02, 8.021, 8.022\" href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/search.cgi?search=&amp;cred=p2\">Physics II (GIR)<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m18a.html#18.03\">18.03<\/a><br>Units: 3-0-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Introduction to modern cosmology. First half deals with the development of the big bang theory from 1915 to 1980, and latter half with recent impact of particle theory. Topics: special relativity and the Doppler effect, Newtonian cosmological models, introduction to non-Euclidean spaces, thermal radiation and early history of the universe, big bang nucleosynthesis, introduction to grand unified theories and other recent developments in particle theory, baryogenesis, the inflationary universe model, and the evolution of galactic structure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8287\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.287[J] Observational Techniques of Optical Astronomy<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Fall &#8211; Institute Lab<br>(Same subject as <a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m12a.html#12.410\">12.410[J]<\/a>)<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"#8282\">8.282<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m12a.html#12.409\">12.409<\/a>, or other introductory astronomy course<br>Units: 3-4-8<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See description under subject&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=12.410J\">12.410[J]<\/a>. Limited to 18; preference to Course 8 and Course 12 majors and minors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8290\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.290[J] Extrasolar Planets: Physics and Detection Techniques<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Fall &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/registrar.mit.edu\/faculty-curriculum-support\/faculty-curriculum-committees\/committee-curricula\/petitions\/restricted\">REST substitution<\/a><br>(Same subject as <a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m12a.html#12.425\">12.425[J]<\/a>)<br>(Subject meets with&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m12c.html#12.625\">12.625<\/a>)<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"#803\">8.03<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m18a.html#18.03\">18.03<\/a><br>Units: 3-0-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See description under subject&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=12.425J\">12.425[J]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8292\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.292[J] Fluid Physics<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Spring (Not offered regularly; consult department)<br>(Same subject as <a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=1.066J\">1.066[J]<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=12.330J\">12.330[J]<\/a>)<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m5b.html#5.60\">5.60<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"#8044\">8.044<\/a>, or permission of instructor<br>Units: 3-0-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A physics-based introduction to the properties of fluids and fluid systems, with examples drawn from a broad range of sciences, including atmospheric physics and astrophysics. Definitions of fluids and the notion of continuum. Equations of state and continuity, hydrostatics and conservation of momentum; ideal fluids and Euler&#8217;s equation; viscosity and the Navier-Stokes equation. Energy considerations, fluid thermodynamics, and isentropic flow. Compressible versus incompressible and rotational versus irrotational flow; Bernoulli&#8217;s theorem; steady flow, streamlines and potential flow. Circulation and vorticity. Kelvin&#8217;s theorem. Boundary layers. Fluid waves and instabilities. Quantum fluids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8295\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.295 Practical Experience in Physics<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Fall, IAP, Spring, Summer &#8211; Can be repeated for credit<br>Prereq: None<br>Units: 0-1-0 [P\/D\/F]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Course 8 students participating in off-campus experiences in physics. Before registering for this subject, students must have an internship offer from a company or organization and must identify a Physics supervisor. Upon completion of the project, student must submit a letter from the company or organization describing the work accomplished, along with a substantive final report from the student approved by the MIT supervisor. Subject to departmental approval. Consult departmental academic office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8298\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.298 Selected Topics in Physics<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Fall, IAP, Spring, Summer &#8211; Can be repeated for credit<br>Prereq: Permission of instructor<br>Units arranged<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Presentation of topics of current interest, with content varying from year to year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8299\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.299 Physics Teaching<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Fall, Spring &#8211; Can be repeated for credit<br>Prereq: None<br>Units arranged [P\/D\/F]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For qualified undergraduate students interested in gaining some experience in teaching. Laboratory, tutorial, or classroom teaching under the supervision of a faculty member. Students selected by interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8EPE\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.EPE UPOP Engineering Practice Experience<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Fall, Spring &#8211; Can be repeated for credit<br>Engineering School-Wide Elective Subject.<br>(Offered under: <a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m1c.html#1.EPE\">1.EPE<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m2c.html#2.EPE\">2.EPE<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m3b.html#3.EPE\">3.EPE<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m6c.html#6.EPE\">6.EPE<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8a.html#8.EPE\">8.EPE<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m10b.html#10.EPE\">10.EPE<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m15c.html#15.EPE\">15.EPE<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m16a.html#16.EPE\">16.EPE<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m20a.html#20.EPE\">20.EPE<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m22a.html#22.EPE\">22.EPE<\/a>)<br>Prereq:&nbsp;None<br>Units: 0-0-1 [P\/D\/F]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See description under subject&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=2.EPE\">2.EPE<\/a>. Application required; consult UPOP website for more information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8S04\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.S02 Special Subject: Physics<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Spring (Not offered regularly; consult department)<br>Prereq: None<br>Units: 1-0-2 [P\/D\/F]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Opportunity for group study of subjects in physics not otherwise included in the curriculum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8S227\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.S227 Special Subject: Physics<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Fall (Not offered regularly; consult department)<br><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prereq: None<\/span><br><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Units: 3-0-9<\/span><br><br><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Opportunity for group study of subjects in physics not otherwise included in the curriculum.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8S227\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.S228 Special Subject: Physics<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; IAP (Not offered regularly; consult department)<br><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prereq: None<\/span><br><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Units: <\/span>2<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-0-4<\/span><br><br><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Opportunity for group study of subjects in physics not otherwise included in the curriculum.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8S227\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.S271 Special Subject: Physics<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Spring  (Not offered regularly; consult department)<br><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prereq: None<\/span><br><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Units: <\/span>2<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-0-4<\/span><br><br><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Opportunity for group study of subjects in physics not otherwise included in the curriculum.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8S30\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.S30 Special Subject: Physics<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Fall, Spring (Not offered regularly; consult department)<br>Prereq: None<br>Units arranged<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Opportunity for group study of subjects in physics not otherwise included in the curriculum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8S50\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.S50 Special Subject: Physics<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; IAP &#8211; Can be repeated for credit (Not offered regularly; consult department)<br>Prereq: None<br>Units arranged [P\/D\/F]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Opportunity for group study of subjects in physics not otherwise included in the curriculum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8UR\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.UR Undergraduate Research<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Fall, IAP, Spring, Summer &#8211; Can be repeated for credit<br>Prereq: None<br>Units arranged [P\/D\/F]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Research opportunities in physics. For further information, contact the departmental UROP coordinator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8THU\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.THU Undergraduate Physics Thesis<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>U &#8211; Fall, IAP, Spring, Summer &#8211; Can be repeated for credit<br>Prereq: None<br>Units arranged<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Program of research leading to the writing of an S.B. thesis; to be arranged by the student under approved supervision.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t    <div class=\"col\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"pullquote-block\">\n\t\t\t\t<blockquote>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p>Graduate Subjects<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8309\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.309 Classical Mechanics III<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Fall<br>(Subject meets with&nbsp;<a href=\"#809\">8.09<\/a>)<br>Prereq: None<br>Units: 4-0-8<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Covers Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics, systems with constraints, rigid body dynamics, vibrations, central forces, Hamilton-Jacobi theory, action-angle variables, perturbation theory, and continuous systems. Provides an introduction to ideal and viscous fluid mechanics, including turbulence, as well as an introduction to nonlinear dynamics, including chaos. Students taking graduate version complete different assignments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8311\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.311 Electromagnetic Theory I<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Spring<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"#807\">8.07<\/a><br>Units: 4-0-8<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Basic principles of electromagnetism: experimental basis, electrostatics, magnetic fields of steady currents, motional emf and electromagnetic induction, Maxwell&#8217;s equations, propagation and radiation of electromagnetic waves, electric and magnetic properties of matter, and conservation laws. Subject uses appropriate mathematics but emphasizes physical phenomena and principles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8315\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.315[J] Mathematical Methods in Nanophotonics<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Spring (Not offered regularly; consult department)<br>(Same subject as&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m18a.html#18.369\">18.369[J]<\/a>)<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"#807\">8.07<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m18a.html#18.303\">18.303<\/a>, or permission of instructor<br>Units: 3-0-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See description under subject&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=18.369J\">18.369[J]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8315\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.316 Data Science in Physics<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Spring (Not offered regularly; consult department)<br>(Same subject as <a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8a.html#8.16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">8.16<\/a>)<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8a.html#8.04\">8.04<\/a>&nbsp;and (<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m6a.html#6.100A\">6.100A<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m6a.html#6.100B\">6.100B<\/a>, or permission of instructor)<br>Units: 3-0-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aims to present modern computational methods by providing realistic, contemporary examples of how these computational methods apply to physics research. Designed around research modules in which each module provides experience with a specific scientific challenge. Modules include: analyzing LIGO open data; measuring electroweak boson to quark decays; understanding the cosmic microwave background; and lattice QCD\/Ising model. Experience in Python helpful but not required. Lectures are viewed outside of class; in-class time is dedicated to problem-solving and discussion. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8321\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.321 Quantum Theory I<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Fall<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"#805\">8.05<\/a><br>Units: 4-0-8<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A two-term subject on quantum theory, stressing principles: uncertainty relation, observables, eigenstates, eigenvalues, probabilities of the results of measurement, transformation theory, equations of motion, and constants of motion. Symmetry in quantum mechanics, representations of symmetry groups. Variational and perturbation approximations. Systems of identical particles and applications. Time-dependent perturbation theory. Scattering theory: phase shifts, Born approximation. The quantum theory of radiation. Second quantization and many-body theory. Relativistic quantum mechanics of one electron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8322\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.322 Quantum Theory II<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Spring (Not offered regularly; consult department)<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"#807\">8.07<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"#8321\">8.321<\/a><br>Units: 4-0-8<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A two-term subject on quantum theory, stressing principles: uncertainty relation, observables, eigenstates, eigenvalues, probabilities of the results of measurement, transformation theory, equations of motion, and constants of motion. Symmetry in quantum mechanics, representations of symmetry groups. Variational and perturbation approximations. Systems of identical particles and applications. Time-dependent perturbation theory. Scattering theory: phase shifts, Born approximation. The quantum theory of radiation. Second quantization and many-body theory. Relativistic quantum mechanics of one electron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8323\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.323 Relativistic Quantum Field Theory I<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Spring<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"#8321\">8.321<\/a><br>Units: 4-0-8<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A one-term self-contained subject in quantum field theory. Concepts and basic techniques are developed through applications in elementary particle physics, and condensed matter physics. Topics: classical field theory, symmetries, and Noether&#8217;s theorem. Quantization of scalar fields, spin fields, and Gauge bosons. Feynman graphs, analytic properties of amplitudes and unitarity of the S-matrix. Calculations in quantum electrodynamics (QED). Introduction to renormalization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8324\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.324 Relativistic Quantum Field Theory II<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Fall<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"#8322\">8.322<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"#8323\">8.323<\/a><br>Units: 4-0-8<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second term of the quantum field theory sequence. Develops in depth some of the topics discussed in 8.323 and introduces some advanced material. Topics: perturbation theory and Feynman diagrams, scattering theory, Quantum Electrodynamics, one loop renormalization, quantization of non-abelian gauge theories, the Standard Model of particle physics, other topics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8325\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.325 Relativistic Quantum Field Theory III<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Spring<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"#8324\">8.324<\/a><br>Units: 4-0-8<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The third and last term of the quantum field theory sequence. Its aim is the proper theoretical discussion of the physics of the standard model. Topics: quantum chromodynamics; Higgs phenomenon and a description of the standard model; deep-inelastic scattering and structure functions; basics of lattice gauge theory; operator products and effective theories; detailed structure of the standard model; spontaneously broken gauge theory and its quantization; instantons and theta-vacua; topological defects; introduction to supersymmetry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8333\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.333 Statistical Mechanics I<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Fall<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"#8044\">8.044<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"#805\">8.05<\/a><br>Units: 4-0-8<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First part of a two-subject sequence on statistical mechanics. Examines the laws of thermodynamics and the concepts of temperature, work, heat, and entropy. Postulates of classical statistical mechanics, microcanonical, canonical, and grand canonical distributions; applications to lattice vibrations, ideal gas, photon gas. Quantum statistical mechanics; Fermi and Bose systems. Interacting systems: cluster expansions, van der Waal&#8217;s gas, and mean-field theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8334\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.334 Statistical Mechanics II<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Spring (Not offered regularly; consult department)<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8b.html#8.333\">8.333<\/a><br>Units: 4-0-8<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Second part of a two-subject sequence on statistical mechanics. Explores topics from modern statistical mechanics: the hydrodynamic limit and classical field theories. Phase transitions and broken symmetries: universality, correlation functions, and scaling theory. The renormalization approach to collective phenomena. Dynamic critical behavior. Random systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8351\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.351[J] Classical Mechanics: A Computational Approach<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Fall<br>(Same subject as <a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=6.5160J\">6.5160[J]<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=12.620J\">12.620[J]<\/a>)<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a title=\"8.01, 8.01L, 8.011, 8.012\" href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/search.cgi?search=&amp;cred=p1\">Physics I (GIR)<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m18a.html#18.03\">18.03<\/a>, and permission of instructor<br>Units: 3-3-6<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See description under subject&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=12.620J\">12.620[J]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8370\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.370[J] QIS I: Quantum Computation<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Fall<br>(Same subject as&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m2a.html#2.111\">2.111[J]<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m6b.html#6.6410\">6.6410[J]<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m18a.html#18.435\">18.435[J]<\/a>)<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m8a.html#8.05\">8.05<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m18a.html#18.06\">18.06<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m18b.html#18.700\">18.700<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m18b.html#18.701\">18.701<\/a>, or&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m18a.html#18.C06\">18.C06<\/a><br>Units: 3-0-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See description under subject&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=18.435J\">18.435[J]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8371\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.371[J] QIS II: Quantum Information Science<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Spring<br>(Same subject as <a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=6.6420J\">6.6420[J]<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=18.436J\">18.436[J]<\/a>)<br>Prereq: <a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=18.435\">18.435[J]<\/a><br>Units: 3-0-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Examines quantum computation and quantum information. Topics include quantum circuits, the quantum Fourier transform and search algorithms, the quantum operations formalism, quantum error correction, Calderbank-Shor-Steane and stabilizer codes, fault tolerant quantum computation, quantum data compression, quantum entanglement, capacity of quantum channels, and quantum cryptography and the proof of its security. Prior knowledge of quantum mechanics required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8371\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.372 QIS III: Quantum Information Science III<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Fall (Not offered regularly; consult department)<br>Prereq: <a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=8.371\">8.371[J]<\/a><br>Units: 3-0-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Third subject in the Quantum Information Science (QIS) sequence, building on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=8.370\">8.370[J]<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=8.371\">8.371[J]<\/a>. Further explores core topics in quantum information science, such as quantum information theory, error-correction, physical implementations, algorithms, cryptography, and complexity. Draws connections between QIS and related fields, such as many-body physics, and applications such as sensing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8381\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.381, 8.382 Selected Topics in Theoretical Physics<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Fall, Spring (Not offered regularly; consult department)<br>Prereq: Permission of instructor<br>Units: 3-0-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Topics of current interest in theoretical physics, varying from year to year. Subject not routinely offered; given when sufficient interest is indicated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8391\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.391 Pre-Thesis Research<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Fall (Can be repeated for credit)<br>Prereq: Permission of instructor<br>Units arranged [P\/D\/F]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Advanced problems in any area of experimental or theoretical physics, with assigned reading and consultations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8392\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.392 Pre-Thesis Research<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Spring, Summer (Can be repeated for credit)<br>Prereq: Permission of instructor<br>Units arranged [P\/D\/F]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Advanced problems in any area of experimental or theoretical physics, with assigned reading and consultations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8395\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.395[J] Teaching College-Level Science and Engineering<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Fall<br>(Same subject as&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m1c.html#1.95\">1.95[J]<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m5b.html#5.95\">5.95[J]<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m7a.html#7.59\">7.59[J]<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m18a.html#18.094\">18.094[J]<\/a>)<br>(Subject meets with&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m2c.html#2.978\">2.978<\/a>)<br>Prereq: None<br>Units: 2-0-2 [P\/D\/F]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See description under subject&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=5.95J\">5.95[J]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8395\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.396[J] Leadership and Professional Strategies &amp; Skills Training (LEAPS), Part I: Advancing Your Professional Strategies and Skills<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Spring (second half of term)<br>(Same subject as&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m5b.html#5.961\">5.961[J]<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m9b.html#9.980\">9.980[J]<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m12a.html#12.396\">12.396[J]<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m18b.html#18.896\">18.896[J]<\/a>)<br>Prereq: None<br>Units: 2-0-1 [P\/D\/F]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Part I (of two parts) of the LEAPS graduate career development and training series. Topics include: navigating and charting an academic career with confidence; convincing an audience with clear writing and arguments; mastering public speaking and communications; networking at conferences and building a brand; identifying transferable skills; preparing for a successful job application package and job interviews; understanding group dynamics and different leadership styles; leading a group or team with purpose and confidence. Postdocs encouraged to attend as non-registered participants. Limited to 80. No required or recommended textbooks<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8395\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.397[J] Leadership and Professional Strategies &amp; Skills Training (LEAPS), Part II: Developing Your Leadership Competencie<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Spring (first half of term)<br>(Same subject as&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m5b.html#5.962\">5.962[J]<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m9b.html#9.981\">9.981[J]<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m12a.html#12.397\">12.397[J]<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m18b.html#18.897\">18.897[J]<\/a>)<br>Prereq: None<br>Units: 2-0-1 [P\/D\/F]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Part II (of two parts) of the LEAPS graduate career development and training series. Topics covered include gaining self awareness and awareness of others, and communicating with different personality types; learning about team building practices; strategies for recognizing and resolving conflict and bias; advocating for diversity and inclusion; becoming organizationally savvy; having the courage to be an ethical leader; coaching, mentoring, and developing others; championing, accepting, and implementing change. Postdocs encouraged to attend as non-registered participants. Limited to 80. No required or recommended textbooks<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8398\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.398 Selected Topics in Graduate Physics<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Fall, Spring (Can be repeated for credit)<br>Prereq: None<br>Units arranged<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A seminar for first-year PhD students presenting topics of current interest, with content varying from year to year. Open only to first-year graduate students in Physics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8399\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.399 Physics Teaching<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Fall, Spring (Can be repeated for credit)<br>Prereq: Permission of instructor<br>Units arranged [P\/D\/F]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For qualified graduate students interested in gaining some experience in teaching. Laboratory, tutorial, or classroom teaching under the supervision of a faculty member. Students selected by interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Physics of Atoms, Radiation, Solids, Fluids, and Plasmas<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8421\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.421 Atomic and Optical Physics I<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Spring (Not offered regularly; consult department)<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"#805\">8.05<\/a><br>Units: 3-0-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first of a two-term subject sequence that provides the foundations for contemporary research in selected areas of atomic and optical physics. The interaction of radiation with atoms: resonance; absorption, stimulated and spontaneous emission; methods of resonance, dressed atom formalism, masers and lasers, cavity quantum electrodynamics; structure of simple atoms, behavior in very strong fields; fundamental tests: time reversal, parity violations, Bell&#8217;s inequalities; and experimental methods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8422\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.422 Atomic and Optical Physics II<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Spring (Not offered regularly; consult department)<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"#805\">8.05<\/a><br>Units: 3-0-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second of a two-term subject sequence that provides the foundations for contemporary research in selected areas of atomic and optical physics. Non-classical states of light- squeezed states; multi-photon processes, Raman scattering; coherence- level crossings, quantum beats, double resonance, superradiance; trapping and cooling- light forces, laser cooling, atom optics, spectroscopy of trapped atoms and ions; atomic interactions- classical collisions, quantum scattering theory, ultracold collisions; and experimental methods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8431\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.431[J] Nonlinear Optics<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Spring<br>(Same subject as&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m6b.html#6.6340\">6.6340[J]<\/a>)<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m6b.html#6.2300\">6.2300<\/a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=8.03\">8.03<\/a><br>Units: 3-0-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See description under subject&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=6.6340J\">6.6340[J]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8481\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.481, 8.482 Selected Topics in Physics of Atoms and Radiation<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Fall, Spring (Not offered regularly; consult department)<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"#8321\">8.321<\/a><br>Units: 3-0-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Presentation of topics of current interest, with content varying from year to year. Subject not routinely offered; given when sufficient interest is indicated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8511\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.511 Theory of Solids I<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Fall<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"#8231\">8.231<\/a><br>Units: 3-0-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First term of a theoretical treatment of the physics of solids. Concept of elementary excitations. Symmetry- translational, rotational, and time-reversal invariances- theory of representations. Energy bands- electrons and phonons. Topological band theory. Survey of electronic structure of metals, semimetals, semiconductors, and insulators, excitons, critical points, response functions, and interactions in the electron gas. Theory of superconductivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8512\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.512 Theory of Solids II<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Spring<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"#8511\">8.511<\/a><br>Units: 3-0-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Second term of a theoretical treatment of the physics of solids. Interacting electron gas: many-body formulation, Feynman diagrams, random phase approximation and beyond. General theory of linear response: dielectric function; sum rules; plasmons; optical properties; applications to semiconductors, metals, and insulators. Transport properties: non-interacting electron gas with impurities, diffusons. Quantum Hall effect: integral and fractional. Electron-phonon interaction: general theory, applications to metals, semiconductors and insulators, polarons, and field-theory description. Superconductivity: experimental observations, phenomenological theories, and BCS theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8513\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.513 Many-Body Theory for Condensed Matter Systems<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Fall (Not offered regularly; consult department)<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"#8033\">8.033<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"#805\">8.05<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"#808\">8.08<\/a>, and&nbsp;<a href=\"#8231\">8.231<\/a><br>Units: 3-0-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Concepts and physical pictures behind various phenomena that appear in interacting many-body systems. Visualization occurs through concentration on path integral, mean-field theories and semiclassical picture of fluctuations around mean-field state. Topics covered: interacting boson\/fermion systems, Fermi liquid theory and bosonization, symmetry breaking and nonlinear sigma-model, quantum gauge theory, quantum Hall theory, mean-field theory of spin liquids and quantum order, string-net condensation and emergence of light and fermions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8514\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.514 Strongly Correlated Systems in Condensed Matter Physics<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Spring (Not offered regularly; consult department)<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"#8322\">8.322<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"#8333\">8.333<\/a><br>Units: 3-0-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Study of condensed matter systems where interactions between electrons play an important role. Topics vary depending on lecturer but may include low-dimension magnetic and electronic systems, disorder and quantum transport, magnetic impurities (the Kondo problem), quantum spin systems, the Hubbard model and high-temperature superconductors. Topics are chosen to illustrate the application of diagrammatic techniques, field-theory approaches, and renormalization group methods in condensed matter physics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8581\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.581, 8.582 Selected Topics in Condensed Matter Physics<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Fall, Spring (Not offered regularly; consult department) &#8211; Can be repeated for credit<br>Prereq: Permission of instructor<br>Units: 3-0-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Presentation of topics of current interest, with contents varying from year to year. Subject not routinely offered; given when sufficient interest is indicated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8590\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.590[J] Topics in Biophysics and Physical Biology (New)<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Fall (Not offered regularly; consult department)<br>(Same subject as&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m7a.html#7.74\">7.74[J]<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m20a.html#20.416\">20.416[J]<\/a>)<br>Prereq: None<br>Units: 2-0-4 [P\/D\/F]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Provides broad exposure to research in biophysics and physical biology, with emphasis on the critical evaluation of scientific literature. Weekly meetings include in-depth discussion of scientific literature led by distinct faculty on active research topics. Each session also includes brief discussion of non-research topics including effective presentation skills, writing papers and fellowship proposals, choosing scientific and technical research topics, time management, and scientific ethics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8591\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.591[J] Systems Biology<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Fall<br>(Same subject as&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m7a.html#7.81\">7.81[J]<\/a>)<br>(Subject meets with&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m7a.html#7.32\">7.32<\/a>)<br>Prereq: (<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m18a.html#18.03\">18.03<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m18a.html#18.05\">18.05<\/a>) or permission of instructor<br>Units: 3-0-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Introduction to cellular and population-level systems biology with an emphasis on synthetic biology, modeling of genetic networks, cell-cell interactions, and evolutionary dynamics. Cellular systems include genetic switches and oscillators, network motifs, genetic network evolution, and cellular decision-making. Population-level systems include models of pattern formation, cell-cell communication, and evolutionary systems biology. Students taking graduate version explore the subject in more depth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8592\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.592[J] Statistical Physics in Biology<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Spring (Not offered regularly; consult department)<br>(Same subject as&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/mHSTa.html#HST.452\">HST.452[J]<\/a>)<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"#8333\">8.333<\/a>&nbsp;or permission of instructor<br>Units: 3-0-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A survey of problems at the interface of statistical physics and modern biology: bioinformatic methods for extracting information content of DNA; gene finding, sequence comparison, phylogenetic trees. Physical interactions responsible for structure of biopolymers; DNA double helix, secondary structure of RNA, elements of protein folding. Considerations of force, motion, and packaging; protein motors, membranes. Collective behavior of biological elements; cellular networks, neural networks, and evolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8593\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.593[J] Biological Physics<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Spring (Not offered regularly; consult department)<br>(Same subject as&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/mHSTa.html#HST.450\">HST.450[J]<\/a>)<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"#8044\">8.044<\/a>&nbsp;recommended but not necessary<br>Units: 4-0-8<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Designed to provide seniors and first-year graduate students with a quantitative, analytical understanding of selected biological phenomena. Topics include experimental and theoretical basis for the phase boundaries and equation of state of concentrated protein solutions, with application to diseases such as sickle cell anemia and cataract. Protein-ligand binding and linkage and the theory of allosteric regulation of protein function, with application to proteins as stores as transporters in respiration, enzymes in metabolic pathways, membrane receptors, regulators of gene expression, and self-assembling scaffolds. The physics of locomotion and chemoreception in bacteria and the biophysics of vision, including the theory of transparency of the eye, molecular basis of photo reception, and the detection of light as a signal-to-noise discrimination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8613\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.613[J] Introduction to Plasma Physics I<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Fall<br>(Same subject as&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m22c.html#22.611\">22.611[J]<\/a>)<br>Prereq: (<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m6a.html#6.013\">6.013<\/a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href=\"#807\">8.07<\/a>) and (<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m18a.html#18.04\">18.04<\/a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<i>Coreq:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m18a.html#18.075\">18.075<\/a><\/i>)<br>Units: 3-0-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See description under subject&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=22.611J\">22.611[J]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8614\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.614[J] Introduction to Plasma Physics II<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Spring (Not offered regularly; consult department)<br>(Same subject as&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m22c.html#22.612\">22.612[J]<\/a>)<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m22c.html#22.611\">22.611<\/a><br>Units: 3-0-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See description under subject&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=22.612J\">22.612[J]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8624\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.624 Plasma Waves<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Spring (Not offered regularly; consult department)<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m22c.html#22.611\">22.611<\/a><br>Units: 3-0-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Comprehensive theory of electromagnetic waves in a magnetized plasma. Wave propagation in cold and hot plasmas. Energy flow. Absorption by Landau and cyclotron damping and by transit time magnetic pumping (TTMP). Wave propagation in inhomogeneous plasma: accessibility, WKB theory, mode conversion, connection formulae, and Budden tunneling. Applications to RF plasma heating, wave propagation in the ionosphere and laser-plasma interactions. Wave propagation in toroidal plasmas, and applications to ion cyclotron (ICRF), electron cyclotron (ECRH), and lower hybrid (LHH) wave heating. Quasi-linear theory and applications to RF current drive in tokamaks. Extensive discussion of relevant experimental observations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8641\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.641 Physics of High-Energy Plasmas I<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Fall (Not offered regularly; consult department)<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m22c.html#22.611\">22.611<\/a><br>Units: 3-0-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Physics of High-Energy Plasmas I and II address basic concepts of plasmas, with temperatures of thermonuclear interest, relevant to fusion research and astrophysics. Microscopic transport processes due to interparticle collisions and collective modes (e.g., microinstabilities). Relevant macroscopic transport coefficients (electrical resistivity, thermal conductivities, particle &#8220;diffusion&#8221;). Runaway and slide-away regimes. Magnetic reconnection processes and their relevance to experimental observations. Radiation emission from inhomogeneous plasmas. Conditions for thermonuclear burning and ignition (D-T and &#8220;advanced&#8221; fusion reactions, plasmas with polarized nuclei). Role of &#8220;impurity&#8221; nuclei. &#8220;Finite-\u03b2&#8221; (pressure) regimes and ballooning modes. Convective modes in configuration and velocity space. Trapped particle regimes. Nonlinear and explosive instabilities. Interaction of positive and negative energy modes. Each subject can be taken independently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8642\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.642 Physics of High-Energy Plasmas II<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Fall (Not offered regularly; consult department)<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m22c.html#22.611\">22.611<\/a><br>Units: 3-0-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Physics of High-Energy Plasmas I and II address basic concepts of plasmas, with temperatures of thermonuclear interest, relevant to fusion research and astrophysics. Microscopic transport processes due to interparticle collisions and collective modes (e.g., microinstabilities). Relevant macroscopic transport coefficients (electrical resistivity, thermal conductivities, particle &#8220;diffusion&#8221;). Runaway and slide-away regimes. Magnetic reconnection processes and their relevance to experimental observations. Radiation emission from inhomogeneous plasmas. Conditions for thermonuclear burning and ignition (D-T and &#8220;advanced&#8221; fusion reactions, plasmas with polarized nuclei). Role of &#8220;impurity&#8221; nuclei. &#8220;Finite-\u03b2&#8221; (pressure) regimes and ballooning modes. Convective modes in configuration and velocity space. Trapped particle regimes. Nonlinear and explosive instabilities. Interaction of positive and negative energy modes. Each subject can be taken independently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8670\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.670[J] Principles of Plasma Diagnostics<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Fall (Not offered regularly; consult department)<br>(Same subject as&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m22c.html#22.67\">22.67[J]<\/a>)<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m22c.html#22.611\">22.611<\/a><br>Units: 4-4-4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See description under subject&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=22.67J\">22.67[J]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8681\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.681, 8.682 Selected Topics in Fluid and Plasma Physics<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Fall, Spring (Not offered regularly; consult department) &#8211; Can be repeated for credit <br>Prereq: <a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=22.611\">22.611[J]<\/a><br>Units: 3-0-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Presentation of topics of current interest, with content varying from year to year. Subject not routinely offered; given when interest is indicated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Nuclear and Particle Physics<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8701\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.701 Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Fall<br>Prereq: None.&nbsp;<i>Coreq:&nbsp;<a href=\"#8321\">8.321<\/a><\/i><br>Units: 3-0-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The phenomenology and experimental foundations of particle and nuclear physics; the fundamental forces and particles, composites. Interactions of particles with matter, and detectors. SU(2), SU(3), models of mesons and baryons. QED, weak interactions, parity violation, lepton-nucleon scattering, and structure functions. QCD, gluon field and color. W and Z fields, electro-weak unification, the CKM matrix. Nucleon-nucleon interactions, properties of nuclei, single- and collective- particle models. Electron and hadron interactions with nuclei. Relativistic heavy ion collisions, and transition to quark-gluon plasma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8711\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.711 Nuclear Physics<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Spring<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"#8321\">8.321<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"#8701\">8.701<\/a><br>Units: 4-0-8<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Modern, advanced study in the experimental foundations and theoretical understanding of the structure of nuclei, beginning with the two- and three-nucleon problems. Basic nuclear properties, collective and single-particle motion, giant resonances, mean field models, interacting boson model. Nuclei far from stability, nuclear astrophysics, big-bang and stellar nucleosynthesis. Electron scattering: nucleon momentum distributions, scaling, olarization observables. Parity-violating electron scattering. Neutrino physics. Current results in relativistic heavy ion physics and hadronic physics. Frontiers and future facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8712\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.712 Advanced Topics in Nuclear Physics<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Fall, Spring &#8211; Can be repeated for credit (Not offered regularly; consult department)<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"#8711\">8.711<\/a>&nbsp;or permission of instructor<br>Units: 3-0-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Subject for experimentalists and theorists with rotation of the following topics: (1) Nuclear chromodynamics&#8211; introduction to QCD, structure of nucleons, lattice QCD, phases of hadronic matter; and relativistic heavy ion collisions. (2) Medium-energy physics&#8211; nuclear and nucleon structure and dynamics studied with medium- and high-energy probes (neutrinos, photons, electrons, nucleons, pions, and kaons). Studies of weak and strong interactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8751\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.751[J] Quantum Technology and Devices<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Spring<br>(Same subject as&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m22b.html#22.51\">22.51[J]<\/a>)<br>(Subject meets with&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m22a.html#22.022\">22.022<\/a>)<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/catalog\/m22b.html#22.11\">22.11<\/a><br>Units: 3-0-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See description under subject&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=22.51J\">22.51[J]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8781\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.781, 8.782 Selected Topics in Nuclear Theory<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Fall, Spring (Not offered regularly; consult department)<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"#8323\">8.323<\/a><br>Units: 3-0-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Presents topics of current interest in nuclear structure and reaction theory, with content varying from year to year. Subject not routinely offered; given when sufficient interest is indicated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8811\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.811 Particle Physics<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Fall<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"#8701\">8.701<\/a><br>Units: 3-0-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Modern review of particles, interactions, and recent experiments. Experimental and analytical methods. QED, electroweak theory, and the Standard Model as tested in recent key experiments at ee and pp colliders. Mass generation, W, Z, and Higgs physics. Weak decays of mesons, including heavy flavors with QCD corrections. Mixing phenomena for K, D, B mesons and neutrinos. CP violation with results from B-factories. Future physics expectations: Higgs, SUSY, sub-structure as addressed by new experiments at the LHC collider.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8812\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.812 Graduate Experimental Physics<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; IAP (Not offered regularly; consult department)<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"#8701\">8.701<\/a><br>Units: 1-8-3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Provides practical experience in particle detection with verification by (Feynman) calculations. Students perform three experiments; at least one requires actual construction following design. Topics include Compton effect, Fermi constant in muon decay, particle identification by time-of-flight, Cerenkov light, calorimeter response, tunnel effect in radioactive decays, angular distribution of cosmic rays, scattering, gamma-gamma nuclear correlations, and modern particle localization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8821\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.821 String Theory<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Fall (Not offered regularly; consult department)<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"#8324\">8.324<\/a><br>Units: 3-0-9<br>Credit cannot also be received for&nbsp;<a href=\"#8251\">8.251<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An introduction to string theory. Basics of conformal field theory; light-cone and covariant quantization of the relativistic bosonic string; quantization and spectrum of supersymmetric 10-dimensional string theories; T-duality and D-branes; toroidal compactification and orbifolds; 11-dimensional supergravity and M-theory. Meets with 8.251 when offered concurrently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8831\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.831 Supersymmetric Quantum Field Theories<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Fall (Not offered regularly; consult department) &#8211; Can be repeated for credit <br>Prereq: Permission of instructor<br>Units: 3-0-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Topics selected from the following: SUSY algebras and their particle representations; Weyl and Majorana spinors; Lagrangians of basic four-dimensional SUSY theories, both rigid SUSY and supergravity; supermultiplets of fields and superspace methods; renormalization properties, and the non-renormalization theorem; spontaneous breakdown of SUSY; and phenomenological SUSY theories. Some prior knowledge of Noether&#8217;s theorem, derivation and use of Feynman rules, l-loop renormalization, and gauge theories is essential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8851\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.851 Effective Field Theory<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Spring (Not offered regularly; consult department)<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"#8324\">8.324<\/a><br>Units: 3-0-9<br>Credit cannot also be received for&nbsp;<a href=\"#8S851\">8.S851<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Covers the framework and tools of effective field theory, including: identifying degrees of freedom and symmetries; power counting expansions (dimensional and otherwise); field redefinitions, bottom-up and top-down effective theories; fine-tuned effective theories; matching and Wilson coefficients; reparameterization invariance; and advanced renormalization group techniques. Main examples are taken from particle and nuclear physics, including the Soft-Collinear Effective Theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8871\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.871 Selected Topics in Theoretical Particle Physics<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Fall (Not offered regularly; consult department) &#8211; Can be repeated for credit <br>Prereq: <a href=\"#8323\">8.323<\/a><br>Units: 3-0-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Presents topics of current interest in theoretical particle physics, with content varying from year to year. Subject not routinely offered; given when sufficient interest is indicated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8872\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.872 Selected Topics in Theoretical Particle Physics<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Fall, Spring (Not offered regularly; consult department) &#8211; Can be repeated for credit <br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"#8323\">8.323<\/a><br>Units: 3-0-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Presents topics of current interest in theoretical particle physics, with content varying from year to year. Subject not routinely offered; given when sufficient interest is indicated.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8881\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.881, 8.882 Selected Topics in Experimental Particle Physics<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Fall, Spring (Not offered regularly; consult department) &#8211; Can be repeated for credit<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"#8811\">8.811<\/a><br>Units: 3-0-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Presents topics of current interest in experimental particle physics, with content varying from year to year. Subject not routinely offered; given when sufficient interest is indicated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Space Physics and Astrophysics<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8901\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.901 Astrophysics I<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Spring<br>Prereq: Permission of instructor<br>Units: 3-0-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Size and time scales. Historical astronomy. Astronomical instrumentation. Stars: spectra and classification. Stellar structure equations and survey of stellar evolution. Stellar oscillations. Degenerate and collapsed stars; radio pulsars. Interacting binary systems; accretion disks, x-ray sources. Gravitational lenses; dark matter. Interstellar medium: HII regions, supernova remnants, molecular clouds, dust; radiative transfer; Jeans&#8217; mass; star formation. High-energy astrophysics: Compton scattering, bremsstrahlung, synchrotron radiation, cosmic rays. Galactic stellar distributions and populations; Oort constants; Oort limit; and globular clusters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8902\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.902 Astrophysics II<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Fall<br>Prereq:&nbsp;<a href=\"#8901\">8.901<\/a><br>Units: 3-0-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Galactic dynamics: potential theory, orbits, collisionless Boltzmann equation, etc. Galaxy interactions. Groups and clusters; dark matter. Intergalactic medium; x-ray clusters. Active galactic nuclei: unified models, black hole accretion, radio and optical jets, etc. Homogeneity and isotropy, redshift, galaxy distance ladder. Newtonian cosmology. Roberston-Walker models and cosmography. Early universe, primordial nucleosynthesis, recombination. Cosmic microwave background radiation. Large-scale structure, galaxy formation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8913\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.913 Plasma Astrophysics I<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Fall (Not offered regularly; consult department)<br>Prereq: Permission of instructor<br>Units: 3-0-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For students interested in space physics, astrophysics, and plasma physics in general. Magnetospheres of rotating magnetized planets, ordinary stars, neutron stars, and black holes. Pulsar models: processes for slowing down, particle acceleration, and radiation emission; accreting plasmas and x-ray stars; stellar winds; heliosphere and solar wind- relevant magnetic field configuration, measured particle distribution in velocity space and induced collective modes; stability of the current sheet and collisionless processes for magnetic reconnection; theory of collisionless shocks; solitons; Ferroaro-Rosenbluth sheet; solar flare models; heating processes of the solar corona; Earth&#8217;s magnetosphere (auroral phenomena and their interpretation, bowshock, magnetotail, trapped particle effects); relationship between gravitational (galactic) plasmas and electromagnetic plasmas.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=8.913\">8.913<\/a>&nbsp;deals with heliospheric,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mit.edu\/search\/?P=8.914\">8.914<\/a>&nbsp;with extra-heliospheric plasmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-opus-core-block-rewrite-oa\" id=\"8914\"><h3 class=\"accordion-title\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"caret\"><\/span>8.914 Plasma Astrophysics II<\/h3><div class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>G &#8211; Spring (Not offered regularly; consult department)<br>Prereq: Permission of instructor<br>Units: 3-0-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For students interested in space physics, astrophysics, and plasma physics in general. Magnetospheres of rotating magnetized planets, ordinary stars, neutron stars, and black holes. 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