Integers; groups, rings, integral domains, fields.

Elementary development of propositional and predicate logic, including semantics and deductive systems and with a discussion of completeness, incompleteness and the decision problem.

Introduction to assembly language. Design of digital logic circuits. Organization of central processors, including instruction sets, register transfer operations, control microprogramming, data representation, and arithmetic algorithms. Memory and input/output organization.

Introduces some quantum phenomena leading to wave-particle duality. Schroedinger theory for bound states and scattering in one dimension. One-particle Schroedinger equation and the hydrogen atom.

Methods and rationale of experimental physics. Intended for physics majors and science and engineering students who desire a more rigorous approach. Experiments chosen from the areas of mechanics (from PHYS171), gas laws, and heats. Theory and applications of error analysis.

First course in a sequence of four Total Quality Program Courses. For total Quality Program participants only.