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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Physics (BS) Academic Degree Map

Location(s): Manhattan Campus


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First Year Hours K-State Core  
Semester 1      
PHYS 122 - Physics Today I 1    
MATH 220 - Analytic Geometry and Calculus I OR  4 KSC 030  
MATH 250 - Mathematical Scholars Calculus 1 4 KSC 030  
PHYS 213 - Engineering Physics I 5 KSC 040  
ENGL 100 - Expository Writing I 3 KSC 010  
Free Elective 2    
Total Credits: 15      
       
Semester 2      
PHYS 123 - Physics Today II 1    
MATH 221 - Analytic Geometry and Calculus II OR 4    
MATH 251 - Mathematical Scholars Calculus 2 4    
PHYS 214 - Engineering Physics II 5    
ENGL 200 - Expository Writing II 3 KSC 010  
Free Elective (CIS or CC Course) 3    
Total Credits: 16      
       
Second Year      
Semester 1      
PHYS 325 - Physics III, Relativity, and Quantum Physics 4    
MATH 222 - Analytic Geometry and Calculus III 4    
Free Elective {Institutionally Designated Area} 3 KSC 070  
COMM 106 - Public Speaking I 3 KSC 020  
Total Credits: 14      
       
Semester 2      
PHYS 522 - Mechanics 4    
PHYS 636 - Physical Measurements Instrumentation 4    
MATH 340 - Elementary Differential Equations 4    
Social and Behavioral Sciences Requirement 3 KSC 050  
Total Credits: 15      
       
Third Year      
Semester 1      
PHYS 664 - Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics 3    
PHYS 532 - Electromagnetic Fields I 4    
Free Elective {Institutionally Designated Area} 3 KSC 070  
 Social and Behavioral Sciences Requirement (US Multicultural Overlay) 3 KSC 050  
Outside Concentration #1 3    
Total Credits: 16      
       
Semester 2      
PHYS 633 - Electromagnetic Fields II 3    
PHYS 662 - Introduction to Quantum Mechanics 4    
Arts and Humanities Requirement (Global Perspectives Overlay) 3 KSC 060  
Outside Concentration #2 3    
Free Elective (CIS or CC Course) 3    
Total Credits: 16      
       
Fourth Year      
Semester 1      
Major Elective - PHYS 600-799 3    
Non-Quantitative Social Sciences Restrive Elective (Ethical Reasoning Overlay) 3    
Arts and Humanities Requirement 3 KSC 060  
Outside Concentration #3 (Recommend STAT 510 or MATH 500-799) 3    
PHYS 709 - Applied Quantum Mechanics 3    
Total Credits: 15      
       
Semester 2      
Major Elective - PHYS 600-799 3    
Free Elective (Recommended CIS or CC Course) 3    
Humanities Restrictive Elective 3    
PHYS 506 Advanced Physics Laboratory 4    
Total Credits: 13      
       
Total Program Hours: 120      

 

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