http://sites.science.oregonstate.edu/portfolioswiki/ 2020-01-26T17:10:46-08:00 http://sites.science.oregonstate.edu/portfolioswiki/ http://sites.science.oregonstate.edu/portfolioswiki/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2011-06-30T13:27:25-08:00 http://sites.science.oregonstate.edu/portfolioswiki/courses:capphil?rev=1309465645 Capstone courses are the culminations of physics topics in the OSU undergraduate physics curriculum. These courses occur in the senior year of undergraduate study. Their purpose is to synthesize and extend relevant physics topics that have been covered in the lower-division and Paradigm courses. text/html 2012-07-16T10:54:15-08:00 http://sites.science.oregonstate.edu/portfolioswiki/courses:qmorder?rev=1342461255 Quantum Mechanics Courses in the Paradigms We use an unusual content order for the early paradigms on quantum mechanics: Nearly all of our students have had a descriptive course in Modern Physics, before they enter the paradigms, which covers a traditional historical approach to the Schroedinger equation, including the double-slit experiment and qualitative descriptions of the solutions of a particle-in-a-box. text/html 2018-09-05T15:06:57-08:00 http://sites.science.oregonstate.edu/portfolioswiki/courses:start?rev=1536185217 The middle- and upper-division courses for physics majors have been extensively reordered compared to traditional curricula. The junior-year “paradigms” classes are each five weeks long (originally three weeks) and meet every day for a total of seven hours each week. Each course focuses on a single illustrative example from physics. The senior-year “capstone” classes cover the more advanced topics of a traditional second semester. Together, these courses cover roughly the same content…