Further details on the status of campus can be found on the UCI Coronavirus FAQ page. While the campus remains open, instruction will be remote until further notice and the Department is preparing to offer remote instruction for the 2020-21 academic year. On behalf of the Department of Chemistry, we would again like to thank you for quickly adapting to learning chemistry remotely. This was revised and sent to all Chemistry undergraduates on October 6th, 2020.
Please see below for an update from the Department of Chemistry regarding plans for the 2020-2021 academic year. Employer Application for the UCI Chemistry Field Studies Program.Application for the UCI Chemistry Field Studies Program.Restriction: Some offerings restricted to Physics Majors. If the student can fairly easily answer at least 75 percent of the questions with a calculator, but no other help, then the student is ready to take Physics 7C and should enroll in it if they have completed one year of high school physics and are Math 2B ready (or have credit for Math 2B). Students are recommended to take a self-assessment test provided by the UCI Department of Physics and Astronomy. ACT Mathematics with a minimum score of 27. SAT Mathematics with a minimum score of 650. AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism with a minimum score of 4. AP Physics C: Mechanics with a minimum score of 4. Prerequisite: Recommended: PHYS 2 or ( MATH 2D and ( CHEM 1C or CHEM H2C or CHEM M3C) or CHEM M2C) or AP Physics C: Mechanics or AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism or SAT Mathematics or ACT Mathematics or passing score on self-assessment test. Topics include force, energy, momentum, rotation, and gravity. Faculty conduct active research in forefront research areas, providing students access to research opportunities in specialized areas like cosmology, particle physics, plasmas and fusion, condensed matter physics, biophysics, and medical physics.
The Department encourages student-faculty interaction and student involvement in undergraduate research. The Department offers majors in Physics and Applied Physics, with interdisciplinary concentrations and tracks that include astrophysics, engineering physics, science education, and courses taught by faculty in Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Engineering, and Medicine.įurthermore, the faculty is vigorous, innovative, and engaged in a wide variety of research, education, and public service activities. The Department of Physics and Astronomy offers introductory and advanced courses for students of various interests, from those in the humanities and social sciences, to those in biological sciences, and to those in physics, engineering, and other sciences. Other disciplines such as chemistry, biology, medicine, and engineering often build upon the foundations laid by physics. Physicists study the smallest particles of matter (quarks and leptons), nuclei, and atoms the fundamental forces the properties of solids, liquids, gases, and plasmas the behavior of matter on the grand scale in stars and galaxies and even the origin and fate of the universe.
Physics is that branch of science concerned with the study of natural phenomena at the fundamental level.