PHYS department

PHYS 4B. Physics for Physics Majors—Fluids, Waves, Statistical and Thermal Physics (4 units)

Link to catalog page: https://catalog.ucsd.edu/courses/PHYS.html#phys4b

Description

Continuation of PHYS 4A covering forced and damped oscillations, fluid statics and dynamics, waves in elastic media, sound waves, heat and the first law of thermodynamics, kinetic theory of gases, Brownian motion, Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution, second law of thermodynamics. Students continuing to PHYS 4C will also need MATH 18 or 20F or 31AH. Prerequisites: PHYS 4A and MATH 20A-B. Recommended preparation: prior or concurrent enrollment in MATH 20C or 31BH.

Prerequisite courses

Successor courses

PHYS 4B is a prerequisite of the following 30 courses:

• ASTR 20A
• ASTR 101
• ASTR 120
• ASTR 122
• ASTR 123
• ASTR 124
• ASTR 130
• ASTR 131
• ASTR 150
• ASTR 152
• ASTR 154
• ASTR 155
• ECE 107
• EDS 105
• MAE 170
• PHYS 4C
• PHYS 4D
• PHYS 4E
• PHYS 100A
• PHYS 105A
• PHYS 110A
• PHYS 111
• PHYS 120
• PHYS 130A
• PHYS 139
• PHYS 161
• PHYS 162
• PHYS 170
• SIO 111
• SIO 135