OK, physics sounds like fun but why does a physics major (or minor) have to take all these courses, whose abstracts in the Bulletin are often hard to understand? Here are some informal and qualitative big-picture explanations about what the core courses are all about and why they are worth your time to take, to master, and to enjoy.
Please click on one of the links below to learn more about a particular core course in the Duke undergraduate physics curriculum.
- PHYSICS 264: Optics and Modern Physics
- PHYSICS 363: Introduction to Thermal Physics
- PHYSICS 361: Introduction to Mechanics
- PHYSICS 362: Electricity and Magnetism
- PHYSICS 464: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics