====== Paradigms and Capstones at Oregon State University ======

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 as a single semester in each of the traditional
physics subdisciplines.

(The links below take you to the course home pages, which include both a brief
description and detailed content information.  For the content only, go
[[./order:|here]].)



===== New Paradigms Courses (5 Intensive Weeks,  Contact Hours: 28 Physics/7 Math) =====

After 20 wonderful years(!!), we are in the process of revising the Paradigms courses. 
The new courses will be described here as they become standardized.  
Archival descriptions of the old courses can be found below.  The new courses are now
five intensive weeks (35 contact hours) which includes one week (7 contact hours) of integrated
mathematical methods, called Math Bits.  The [[.:home:mbhome20|Math Bits]] only
could act as a standalone mathematical methods course.






==== Fall of Year 3 ====
  * [[.:order20:sporder20:start|Quantum Fundamentals]]  FIXME
  * [[.:home:eehome20|Energy and Entropy]]

==== Winter of Year 3 ====  
  * [[.:home:wvhome20|Waves]]  FIXME
  * [[.:home:pshome20|Periodic Systems]]  FIXME

==== Spring of Year 3 ====  
  * [[.:home:vfhome20|Static Fields]]
  * [[.:home:cfhome20|Central Forces]]

===== Mathematics Courses =====

  * [[.:home:mvhome|Multivariable Calculus]]
  * [[.:home:vchome|Vector Calculus]]

===== Capstone Courses (Typically taught at the end of year 3 and in year 4) =====
More about the [[.:capphil|philosophy of Capstones]]

  * [[.:home:cmhome|Classical Mechanics]]
  * [[.:home:emhome|Electricity & Magnetism]]
  * [[.:home:qmhome|Quantum Mechanics]]
  * [[.:home:mmhome|Math Methods--Archival]]
  * [[.:home:ophome|Optics]]
  * [[.:home:smhome|Statistical Physics]]


===== Archive of Original Paradigms Courses (3 Intensive Weeks Each, Contact Hours: 21) =====

==== Fall of Year 3 ====
  * [[.:home:syhome|Symmetries and Idealizations]]
  * [[.:home:vfhome|Static Vector Fields]]
  * [[.:home:oshome|Oscillations]]

==== Winter of Year 3 ====  
  * [[.:home:prhome|Preface]]
  * [[.:home:sphome|Quantum Measurements and Spin  (Old)]]
  * [[.:home:sphomecam|Quantum Measurements and Spin 2]]
  * [[.:home:wvhome|One-Dimensional Waves]]
  * [[.:home:cfhome|Central Forces]]
(more about the [[.:qmorder|order]] of the Quantum Paradigms)


==== Spring of Year 3 ====  
  * [[.:home:pphome|Periodic Systems]]
  * [[.:home:pphomeold|Periodic Systems (Old)]]
  * [[.:home:inhome|Interlude]]
  * [[.:home:eehome|Energy and Entropy]]
  * [[.:home:rfhome|Reference Frames]]