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Qualifying Students may seek Special Honors in Physics. They must have UPPER-DIVISION STANDING.
Prerequisites include: A UT GPA of at least 3.0, a GPA in Physics of at least 3.5, 12 semester hours of Upper-Division Coursework in Physics, and consent of the student's Research Supervisor and Departmental Honors Advisor. They also must complete a thesis and Physics 379H (Honors Tutorial Course). Examples of the 2007 Honors Theses in Physics: Brooks Campbell: Break-Off of an Air Bubble within a Thin Oil Layer Isaac Chavez: Development of a Fast Position-Sensitive Laser Beam Detector Michael Gerrity: Single-Shot Third-Order Autocorrelator for Measuring Prepulses on Ultrafast High Intensity Lasers Michelle Millan: Active Feedback Control for Thermal Noise Reduction in an Ultrasensitive Micro-oscillator Thomas Payne: Atomlevel Surface Dynamics Simulation of Brownian Motion Eric T. Wright: A Detector for Muon Tomography: Data Acquisition and Preliminary Results |