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The official website of the Department of Physics at Princeton University. Find news, events, research, and opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students.
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Department of Physics. Jadwin Hall, Washington Road Princeton, New Jersey 08544
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- The Undergraduate Program Committee
- Declaring as A Physics Concentrator
- Student Run Activities
- Approval of Outside Courses
- Study Abroad
Physics addresses the material universe at its most fundamental levels. Physical laws apply from subatomic to cosmological scales. The goals of physics are to push to ever deeper levels of understanding of the physical world, and to push upward, extending our understanding to more complicated systems, including molecules, fluids, solids, galaxies, ...
The undergraduate program committee oversees the undergraduate physics program as a whole. In AY 2023-2024, the committee members are, Waseem Bakr (chair), Lawrence Cheuk, Chris Tully and Katerina Visnjic. The program committee is assisted by Karen Olsen, the Undergraduate Administrator.
During the spring of your sophomore year, during a designated time frame, you will schedule an appointment with a member of the undergraduate program committee. Before the meeting, be sure to indicate in University systems that you are a prospective physics concentrator, so that your Princeton transcript and proposed courses for junior fall will be...
The Princeton Society of Physics Students(link is external) (PSPS) organizes talks and activities for physics students. Princeton University Physics Competition(link is external)(PUPC) is a physics competition for high school students organized by Princeton undergraduates. Towards an Inclusive Community of Undergraduate physicists (TiCuP) organizes...
You may request approval in advance to take a physics course at another institution for Princeton credit. The first step is to fill out the pre-approval form available from the Office of the Dean of the College(link is external). We recommend summer courses at Berkeley, Caltech, the University of Chicago, Columbia, CUNY, Harvard, NYU, Rutgers, Ston...
Study abroad works well for physics majors in their sophomore or junior year. We recommend study abroad at Oxford, the University of St. Andrews, the University of Cape Town, and Math in Moscow. If you plan to go as a junior, please note that the Physics Department permits one but not both junior papers (JPs) to be written as part of a study abroad...
The Princeton University Department of Physics is an academic department dedicated to research and teaching at Princeton University. The associated faculty members, researchers, and students have been recognized for their research contributions, having been awarded 19 Nobel Prizes, four National Medals of Science, and two Wolf Prizes ...
Program of Study. A typical physics major takes introductory mechanics (Physics 103 or 105) and introductory electromagnetism (104 or 106) in the first year, and advanced mechanics (205 or 207) and introductory quantum mechanics (208) the second year.
Learn how to apply for the Physics graduate program at Princeton, which offers a holistic and inclusive admissions process. Find out the key dates, application components, and other departments related to Physics research.
