Atmospheric Sciences @ UGA

4 hours. 3 hours lecture and 2 hours lab per week. Oasis Title: SOILS AND HYDROLOGY. Not open to students with credit in CRSS 3050-3050L. Prerequisite: CHEM 1211 and CHEM 1211L. Offered every year.

Soil formation and morphology, physical and chemical properties, soil-water interactions, hydrologic processes and water balance in the landscape, and soil and water quality. Emphasis on landscape management of soil and water resources for both productivity and environmental quality.

FORS 4110/6110. Forest Hydrology.

3 hours. Oasis title: FOREST HYDROLOGY. Prerequisite: ENGR 3410 or CRSS(FORS) 3060-3060L or GEOL 4220/6220 or GEOG 4030/6030 or CRSS 4600/6600-4600L/6600L or permission of school. Offered spring semester.

Multidisciplinary examination of the terrestrial components of the hydrologic cycle focusing on the qualitative analysis of precipitation, snowmelt, runoff generation, routing, infiltration, and subsurface flow and transport. Emphasis is on the definition of hydrologic processes, identification of hydrologic resources, development of environmental monitoring techniques, and application to hydrologic resources management.

FORS 4120/6120. Quantitative Methods in Hydrology.

3 hours. Oasis Title: QUANT HYDROLOGY. Undergraduate prerequisite: ENGR 3410 or CRSS(FORS) 3060-3060L or FORS 4110/6110 or GEOL 4220/6220 or GEOG 4030/6030 or CRSS 4600/6600-4600L/6600L or permission of school. Offered fall semester every year.

Advanced analysis of hydrologic processes to provide a theoretical understanding of precipitation, evapotranspiration, streamflow, groundwater occurrence and movement, and soil zone flow and transport. Emphasis is upon quantitative methods used in conjunction with field and laboratory data to identify flow and transport dynamics in hydrologic systems.

FORS 4130L/6130L. Field Methods in Hydrology.

2 hours. 4 hours lab per week. Oasis Title: FIELD MET HYDROLOGY. Undergraduate prerequisite: ENGR 3410 or CRSS(FORS) 3060-3060L or FORS 4110/6110 or GEOL 4220/6220 or GEOG 4030/6030 or CRSS 4600/6600-4600L/6600L. Offered spring semester every year.

Field data acquisition methods to hydrologic systems are used to determine precipitation quantity and quality, evapotranspiration, streamflow, groundwater occurrence and movement, and soil zone transport processes. Physical and chemical measurements are coupled to determine flow paths, mass balances, and the environmental fate of solutes.

ENGR 2150. Fluid Mechanics.

3 hours. 2 hours lecture and 2 hours lab per week. Oasis Title: FLUID MECHANICS. Prerequisite: ENGR 2120. Prerequisite or corequisite: MATH 2700. Offered fall and spring semesters every year.

Elements and engineering applications of the laws of fluid behavior to evaluate the forces and energies generated by fluids at rest and in motion.

ENGR 3050. Soil and Water Resource Conservation.

3 hours. 2 hours lecture and 2 hours lab per week. Oasis Title: S&W RSRC CONSERV. Prerequisite: [MATH 1113 and PHYS 1111-1111L and CHEM 1212 and CHEM 1212L and (CRSS 3050-3050L or CRSS(FORS) 3060-3060L)] or permission of department. Offered every year.

The science of hydrology and presentation of methods for management of runoff, erosion, and associated water quality issues. Not for credit toward an engineering major.

ENGR 3140. Thermodynamics.

2 hours. Oasis Title: THERMODYNAMICS. Prerequisite: MATH 2210 and PHYS 1211-1211L. Offered fall and spring semesters every year.

The science of energy analysis from an engineering perspective. Focus on forms of energy, transformations of energy, and energy flows. Study applications in biological and traditional engineering systems.

ENGR 3150. Heat Transfer.

3 hours. Oasis Title: HEAT TRANSFER. Prerequisite: MATH 2700. Offered fall semester every year.

Theory of heat transmission by conduction, convection, and radiation. The solution of steady and unsteady state engineering problems involving heat transfer.

PHYS 4300/6300. Thermodynamics and Kinetic Theory.

3 hours. Oasis Title: THERMODYNAMICS. Undergraduate prerequisite: (PHYS 1112-1112L or PHYS 1212-1212L) and MATH 2700. Offered spring semester every year.

The laws of thermodynamics and their application to physical systems. Kinetic theory.

MARS 4100/6100. Physical Processes of the Ocean.

3 hours. Oasis Title: PHYS PROCESS OCEAN. Undergraduate prerequisite: PHYS 1112-1112L. Offered spring semester every even-numbered year.

Oceanographic principles of the geological and physical structure, composition, and processes of the ocean with emphasis on general oceanic circulation, water properties, waves and tides, coastal physical processes, turbulent mixing, sediment transport.

MARS 4500/6500. Field Study in Oceanography and Marine Methods.

5 hours. 15 hours lecture and 25 hours lab per week. Oasis Title: FIELD OCEANOGRAPHY. Undergraduate prerequisite: Permission of department.

Non-traditional format: A field study course taught off-campus. Offered summer semester every year. Laboratory and fieldwork in chemical, biological, sedimentological, and physical oceanographic processes and methods in southeast esturaine, coastal, and shelf environments.

MARS 8120. Geophysical Fluid Dynamics.

3 hours. Oasis Title: GEOPHYS FLUID DYN. Prerequisite: (MARS 8030 and MATH 2700 and PHYS 1212-1212L) or permission of department. Offered fall semester every even-numbered year.

Fundamental geophysical fluid dynamics of small, medium, and large scale rotating stratified fields. Derivation of the navier-stokes equation, dimensional analyses, quasi-geostrophic approximation, potential vorticity principles, buoyancy-driven flows.

MARS 8150. Ocean Waves.

3 hours. Oasis Title: OCEAN WAVES. Prerequisite: (MARS 8030 and MATH 2700 and PHYS 1212-1212L) or permission of department. Offered fall semester every odd-numbered year.

Physics and mathematics of wave motions in the ocean. Kinetics of waves, phase and group velocities, frequency and wave number dispersion, instabilities, barotropic and baroclinic wave forcing, gravity waves, vorticity waves, internal waves, tides, kelvin waves, planetary rossby waves. Time series and spectral analysis as oceanographic experimental tools.

MARS 8170. Ocean Mixing Processes.

3 hours. Oasis Title: OCEAN MIXING. Prerequisite: MARS 8030 or permission of department.

The physics and parameterization of turbulent flows. Studies of boundary-free shear flows and boundary mixing. Statistical analysis of turbulent transport (including diffusion and mixing) and turbulent spectra. Observational techniques will be described.

ENGR 4940. Introductory Systems Modeling.

3 hours. Oasis Title: INTRO SYSTEMS MODEL. Prerequisite: ENGR 1140 and ENGR 2110 and MATH 2700. Offered every year.

Computer modeling of biological and agricultural processes and the solution of engineering/management problems in agro-industrial systems through computer simulation. Four methodologies will be presented: statistical data fitting, system dynamics, bond graph, and discrete event modeling.

PHYS 3320-3320L. Introductory Electronics.

3 hours. 2 hours lecture and 3 hours lab per week. Oasis Title: INTRO ELECTRONICS. Prerequisite: (PHYS 1112-1112L or PHYS 1212-1212L) and MATH 2500. Offered spring semester every year.

Electric circuits and electronics. DC and AC circuit analysis, diode and transistor circuits, integrated circuits, and digital electronics.

PHYS 3330-3330L. Modern Optics.

3 hours. 2 hours lecture and 3 hours lab per week. Oasis Title: MODERN OPTICS. Prerequisite: (PHYS 1112-1112L or PHYS 1212-1212L) and MATH 2500. Offered fall semester every year.

The properties of light with emphasis on physical optics: diffraction, polarization, lasers, holography.

PHYS 3900. Mathematical Methods in Physics.

3 hours. Oasis Title: MATH METH IN PHYS. Prerequisite: PHYS 1112-1112L or PHYS 1212-1212L. Offered spring semester every year.

Special topics in calculus for physics majors and engineers. Topics include vector calculus, linear algebra, power series, Taylor's series, complex analysis, and differential equations. The mathematical ideas and techniques are presented in the context of how and where they appear in the laws of physics, and the physical significance of the mathematics is discussed.

PHYS 4101/6101. Theoretical Mechanics I.

3 hours. Oasis Title: MECHANICS I. Undergraduate prerequisite: MATH 2700. Offered fall semester every year.

Kinematics and dynamics of a particle and systems of particles. Topics include the harmonic oscillator, the damped oscillator, the driven oscillator, the central force problem, Kepler's laws, Rutherford scattering, and accelerated reference frames.

PHYS 4102/6102. Theoretical Mechanics II.

3 hours. Oasis Title: MECHANICS II. Undergraduate prerequisite: PHYS 4101/6101. Offered spring semester every year.

Mechanics of continuous media. Formal developments in mechanics including the formulations of Lagrange and Hamilton.

PHYS 4201/6201. Electricity and Magnetism I.

3 hours. Oasis Title: ELEC & MAGNETISM I. Undergraduate prerequisite: MATH 2700. Offered fall semester every year.

The first semester of a two-semester course on classical electrodynamics. Topics to be covered include a review of vector calculus, electrostatics, magnetostatics, Maxwell's equations, electromagnetic radiation, the theory of electromagnetic fields in matter, and Einstein's special theory of relativity.

PHYS 4202/6202. Electricity and Magnetism II.

3 hours. Oasis Title: ELEC & MAGNET II. Undergraduate prerequisite: PHYS 4201/6201. Offered spring semester every year.

Applications of Maxwell's equations.