The physics major is intended for those interested in careers as physicists, engineers, or any other profession in which analytical thinking plays an important role.
Our physics department offers a rigorous physics major and minor with courses that fuse theoretical, experimental, and computational techniques. Computational Physics is the fastest developing member of that triumvirate. In addition to offering a full course called Computational Physics, we incorporate computational techniques in most of our other courses.
We encourage our majors to actively involve themselves in physics outside of the classroom. Majors participate in the Society of Physics Students and they undertake research projects; some students get involved with research as early as the summer following their sophomore year. Senior physics major Crystal Moorman researched at Stony Brook University during the summer of 2008 in the Research Experiences for Undergraduates program sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
DEPARTMENT NEWS: We are pleased to announce the addition of a new physics faculty member. Dr. Chinthaka Liyanage, an experimentalist specializing in optical properties of semiconductors, begins work at LC in the fall of 2008. We also report that Dr. John Eric Goff will spend the 2008-09 academic year at the University of Sheffield in England. Dr. Goff will perform theoretical and computational investigations into aerodynamics associated with various projectiles used in sports.
The Lynchburg College Department in Physics is located on the fourth floor of Hobbs Hall (pictured on the right). Click on the links to the far left to learn more about our department.
For more information about the physics department, visit Dr. Goff's LC physics pages.