McGill Physics Courses

This is a database of physics courses being offered at McGill. This was created and then duplicated, and a copy exists in the website. They are not linked, so changes to this database do not affect the website version.

Pages dedicates to researchers in the 'Slide Deck' database are linked to courses in this database (see the far-right column of this database, or return to the main documentation page to find the slide deck database). Again, this does not affect the way researchers are linked to courses in the actual website, as the 'Slide deck' database is also independent.

This database includes much more information about each course compared to the version of this database in the website, because this one is purely for reference use of the person maintaining the website. Some course syllabi have been added for additional information, but they will quickly become outdated. They are simply to offer a glimpse of the type of content being taught. Instructors will also quickly become outdated.

McGill Courses

Course code
Course name
Level
Course Type
Instuctors
Topics
Related to Slide deck (Related course)
PHYS 180

Space, Time and Matter

General Interest Couses100
Lecture
WebbBrandenberger

PHYS 181

Everyday Physics

General Interest Couses100
Lecture
Hilke

PHYS 182

Our evolving Universe

General Interest Couses100
Lecture
Brandenberger

Aomawa ShieldsShirley Ho
PHYS 183

The Milky Way Inside and Out

General Interest Couses100
Lecture
Kaspi

PHYS 186

Astrobiology

General Interest Couses100
Lecture
CowanMahmoudi

Aomawa Shields
PHYS 224

Physics of Music

General Interest Couses200
Lecture
Grant

PHYS 228

Energy and the Environment

General Interest Couses200
Lecture
Lovejoy

PHYS 101

Introductory Physics - Mechanics

100
Lecture
Ragan

PHYS 102

Inroductory Physics - Electromagnetism

100
Lecture
Provatas

Mildred DresselhausAnja Boisen
PHYS 107

Mechanics Laboratory

100
Lab
Ragan

Gabriela GonzálesAnja Boisen
PHYS 108

E&M Laboratory (Life Sciences)

100
Lab
Provatas

PHYS 117

Mechanics Laboratory

100
Lab
Ragan

Gabriela GonzálesAnja Boisen
PHYS 118

E&M Laboratory

100Not offered
Lab

Donna Strickland
PHYS 131

Mechanics and Waves

100
Lecture
Ragan

Gabriela Gonzáles
PHYS 142

Electromagnetism and Optics

100
Lecture
Webb

Mildred Dresselhaus
PHYS 224

Physics of Music

200
Lecture
Grant

PHYS 230

Dynamics of Simple Systems

200
Lecture
Guo

PHYS 232

Heat and Waves

200
Lecture
Caron-Huot

PHYS 241

Signal Processing

200
LectureLab
Reisner

PHYS 242

Electricity and Magnetism

200
Lecture
Chiang

PHYS 251

Honours Classical Mechanics 1

200
Lecture
Cline

Gabriela GonzálesAnja Boisen
PHYS 253

Thermal Physics

200
Lecture
Caron-Huot

PHYS 257

Experimental Methods 1

200
Lab
Siwick

PHYS 258

Experimental Methods 2

200
Lab
Brunner

PHYS 260

Modern Physics and Relativity

200
Lecture
Liu

Gabriela Gonzáles
PHYS 271

Introduction to Quantum Physics

200Not offered
Lecture

Donna Strickland
PHYS 319

Introduction to Biophysics

300
Lecture
Wiseman

Ibrahim Cissé
PHYS 320

Introduction to Astrophysics

300
Lecture
Haggard

Gabriela GonzálesAomawa Shields
PHYS 321

Datascience and observational astrophysics

300
Lecture
Liu

Gabriela GonzálesShirley Ho
PHYS 329

Statistical Physics with Biophysical Applications

300
Lecture
Francois

PHYS 328

Electronics

300
LabLecture
Chiang

Donna Strickland
PHYS 331

Topics in Classical Mechanics

300
Lecture
Gervais

Gabriela Gonzáles
PHYS 333

Thermal and Statistical Physics

300
Lecture
Rutledge

PHYS 339

Measurements Laboratory in General Physics

300
Lab
Reisner

Donna Strickland
PHYS 340

Majors Electricity and Magnetism

300
Lecture
Guo

Donna Strickland
PHYS 342

Majors Electromagnetic Waves

300
Lecture
Gervais

Donna Strickland
PHYS 346

Majors Quantum Physics

300
Lecture
Vachon

Donna StricklandMildred Dresselhaus
PHYS 350

Honours Electricity and Magnetism

300
Lecture
Sievers

PHYS 351

Honours Classical Mechanics 2

300
Lecture
Dasgupta

Gabriela Gonzáles
PHYS 352

Honours Electromagnetic Waves

300
Lecture
Rutledge

PHYS 357

Honours Quantum Physics 1

300
Lecture
Pereg-Barnea

Mildred Dresselhaus
PHYS 359

Honours Laboratory in Modern Physics 1

300
Lab
BrunnerRyan

PHYS 362

Statistical Mechanics

300
Lecture
Grant

PHYS 396

Undergraduate Research Project

300
Research
Ryan

PHYS 404

Climate Physics

400
Lecture
Cowan

Aomawa Shields
PHYS 413

Physical Basis of Physiology

400Not offered
Lecture

PHYS 432

Physics of Fluids

400
Lecture
Lee

PHYS 434

Optics

400
Lecture
Cooke

Gabriela GonzálesDonna Strickland
PHYS 439

Majors Laboratory in Modern Physics

400
Lab
Sankey-ChildressRyan

PHYS 447

Applications of Quantum Mechanics

400
Lecture
Pereg-Barnea

phys 788

PHYS 449

Majors Research Project

400
Research

PHYS 457

Honours Quantum Physics 2

400
Lecture
Agarwal

Mildred Dresselhaus
PHYS 459 D1/D2

Honours Research Thesis

400
Research
Lovejoy

PHYS 469

Honours Laboratory in Modern Physics 2

400
Lab
Sankey-ChildressRyan

PHYS 512

Computational Physics with Applications

500
Lecture
Sievers

Shirley Ho
PHYS 514

General Relativity

500
Lecture
Maloney

Gabriela GonzálesShirley Ho
PHYS 519

Advanced Biophysics

500
Lecture
Francois

Ibrahim Cissé
PHYS 521

Astrophysics

500
Lecture
RutledgeHaggard

Gabriela GonzálesAomawa ShieldsShirley Ho
PHYS 534

Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

500Not offered
Lecture

Mildred DresselhausAnja Boisen
PHYS 551

Quantum Theory

500
Lecture
Cumming

PHYS 557

Nuclear Physics

500
Lecture
Jeon

PHYS 558

Solid State Physics

500
Lecture
Childress

Donna Strickland
PHYS 559

Advanced Statistical Mechanics

500
Lecture
Coish

PHYS 562

Electromagnetic Theory

500
Lecture
Hilke

PHYS 567

Particle Physics

500
Lecture
Cline