专业描述

The Physics Department at Carnegie Mellon University engages a diverse population of students, faculty, and researchers in searching for a deeper understanding of what our world is made of and how it works through active learning in the classroom and the laboratory. This community of learners contributes to their scientific colleagues, employers, and world by using the power of their distinctive quantitative methodology to solve novel, and complex problems. We are committed to excellence in teaching both physics majors and students from other departments taking physics courses. Our goals for physics majors are: To satisfy our physics majors' basic curiosity about the nature of the universe, to inspire them to investigate and learn, and to encourage and expand their drive to understand the physics that governs nature and technology; To instill in them the knowledge and skills that constitute a physicists unique approach to solving the diverse problems they will encounter in their academic and non-academic careers. Our goals for non-physics majors are: To develop and maintain a set of introductory courses that provide the prerequisite knowledge of physics needed by non-majors in further work in their majors. To develop and maintain a set of physics courses for non-majors that are exciting and informative and support the University's mission to produce students who can be leaders in our society.