PHYS 311

ESTIMATION IN PHYSICS.

Eastern Washington University · UGRD · Fall 2026

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Notes: graded Pass/Fail. Pre-requisites: PHYS 221 . This course covers the crucial skill of taking real-world problems, analyzing their key elements, and deploying estimation and approximation techniques to make the problems tractable on the back of an envelope. It covers dimensional analysis, order-of-magnitude estimation, explicit mathematical approximations like truncating series, and application of approximate physical theories.

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