应用物理学位提供了物理学科的基础，同时为学生在应用领域中的特定兴趣提供了极大的灵活性。它包括一组由学生选择，经顾问批准的选修课程，共12个学时，可以根据物理和天文学系的内部或外部修读，以适应应用物理领域的个别学生兴趣。对于那些可能在学士学位课程之后继续学习法律，商业或医学，计算机/信息技术或工程或其他科学领域的人来说，这是一个极好的学位。也适合那些希望在工业或政府的BS级科学或技术领域工作的人。对于那些对物理学的个人教育目标有清晰认识并希望利用此课程的灵活性的本科生来说，这也是一个有吸引力的学位。这12个
The Applied Physics degree provides the basics of the discipline of physics while leaving great flexibility in the schedule for particular student interests in applied areas. It includes a student-selected, advisor-approved set of elective courses, 12 credit hours, that may be taken inside or outside the Department of Physics and Astronomy, tailored to individual student interests in applied physics. It is an excellent degree for those who may continue study in law, business or medicine, computer/information technology or in an engineering or another science area after the BS. It is also appropriate for those who wish to work in a science or technical area at the BS level in industry or government. It is also an attractive degree for those undergraduates who have a clear vision of individual educational goals in physics and wish to take advantage of the flexibility in this program. These 12 hours must consist of a coherent set of courses with an identified educational goal. Up to three of the 12 hours can be from 200-level classes, the remaining hours must be upper division (300-level or above).<br><br>Program Outcomes: <br>Physics Theory and Application<br>Apply principles to model and solve representative problems analytically and computationally, at an introductory level from the primary physical theories (classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, special relativity, thermodynamics, electromagnetism and optics), and at an advanced level in classical mechanics, electrostatics and optics/electrodynamics.<br><br>Experimental and Computational Skills<br>Design and conduct experiments, build scientific equipment, write scientific programs to simulate physical systems, and analyze data.