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This course covers newtonian mechanics, special relativity, gravitation, thermodynamics, and waves. Students come to yale summer session to take yale college courses in new haven, online, or abroad or to hone their craft at the yale writers workshop or in the summer drama. Unless explicitly set forth in the applicable credits section of a lecture, thirdparty content is not covered under the creative commons license. He is the 2009 winner of the american physical societys. This course is the second part of a three course sequence. Congratulations on being accepted into yale universitys graduate program. Ramamurti shankar is john randolph huffman professor of physics at yale. This open house is jointly run by the department of applied physics and the department of physics. Apr 05, 2012 the open yale courses project is produced and supported by the yale center for media and instructional innovation, which promotes the use of technology to enhance learning at yale and beyond. Welcome to the yale physics department, a center of research and training, in which our vibrant community works together with each other, and with collaborators across yales campus, the country. The yale quantum institute yqi, founded in 2014, serves as a forum to bring together experimental and theoretical researchers at yale in the field of quantum information physics, quantum optics and nanophotonics, optomechanics, mesoscopic physics, quantum control, quantum measurement, and quantum manybody physics. His popular open yale course introduction to physics has a major following in the united states, india, australia, china, and elsewhere. It is the first course in the undergraduate quantum physics sequence, followed by 8. The book and course are not substitutes for courses in the math department or the additional math taught as part of the upper level courses.
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