- Provide all students with a broad and fundamental knowledge of physical
principles which can be useful to them in their careers whatever their
major at Harvey Mudd.
- Encourage students to become broadly educated in the humanities and socical sciences as well as in the natural sciences, mathematics, and technology.
- Encourage the use of physical thinking and provide a foundation in physics upon which other majors can build.
- Teach all students some of our best current understanding of what the world is like, and not only the way it was understood hundreds of years ago.
- Help students explore how mathematics is used in solving problems in the natural world and strengthen all students in the application of mathematics.
- Help students develop their powers of observation and the application of physical principles by providing an extensive laboratory program.
- Emphasize the connections between physics and other disciplines; encourage interdisciplinary activities and an understanding of the impact of physics upon society.
- Provide a rigorous, challenging, and stimulating education for our majors.
- Teach excellent lecture/discussion courses and laboratories for physics majors and students in other majors as well. lnvolve students in some measure of creative activity in all our courses.
- Teach students how to learn from a variety of sources, including books, journals, experiments, colleagues, modeling, and simulations. Encourage independent investigation.
- Maintain a flexible program that provides the best possible foundation in physics for both graduate work and applications, while affording students a wide range of course choices and degree options. Creative research or projects should be the high point of every student's program of study.
- Provide close personal contact and guidance for our students.
- Assess how our graduates are doing, how they are using physics, and how graduates in other majors are using the physics they learned at Harvey Mudd.
Presentation time in the computational physics course turns into a family affair!
Double, double toil and trouble
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
