Department of Physics
The Department of Physics at USM offers a B.A. in Physics with faculty pursuing research topics such as Light Scattering, studies of Asteroid Composition and Dynamics, Stellar Classification, Computational Physics, Brownian Motion, and Torsion Pendulum Physics. Learn more about Department of Physics.
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Electric field and equipotential contours around a capacitor
A project from Computational Physics, submitted by student Derick Arel.
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