PHY 270 — UNIVERSITY PHYSICS IV (CUR-421)
Summary 🟡 ✓
- Resource type: course
- Owner Unit: Physics and Astrophysics
- College/School: College of Science and Health
- Curriculum section: Physics and Astrophysics
- Catalog: PHY 270
- Last Verified: 2026-07-01
Course access
- Level: yellow (
Prerequisites Required) - Rationale: Catalog lists formal prerequisites, co-requisites, or program-status requirements.
- Prerequisites:
- PHY 172 is a prerequisite
Verification
- Status: verified_catalog_course (
✓) - Rationale: Captured from official DePaul course catalog (2026-06-30 discovery pass).
- Source URL: catalog.depaul.edu/course-descriptions/phy
- Last verified: 2026-07-01
Catalog description
An introduction to 20th-century physics. Topics include special relativity, quantum mechanics, and statistical analysis of data. PHY 172 is a prerequisite for this course.
Hardware relevance
Quantum mechanics, quantum chemistry, or quantum information content in the official DePaul course catalog (thematic quantum audit, 2026-06-30).
Notes
Catalog course key: PHY 270.
Provenance (promotion record)
- Promotion date: 2026-07-01
- Promotion batch:
catalog-course-promotion-2026-06-30 - Provenance kernel:
depaul/XTR-000360←depaul/SRC-001081(catalog_description)- Extraction status: linked
- Evidence packets:
2026-06-30-thematic-fab-optics-quantum-id-evidence2026-06-30-engineering-catalog-evidence- Discovery themes: quantum
- Program tags: robotics_bs, intelligent_systems_engineering_bs
- Schedule (capture): 2026-2027 Autumn — Gabriela Gonzalez Aviles
- Evidence captures:
- Catalog:
sources/inbox/2026-06-30-thematic-fab-optics-quantum-id-evidence/source_snapshot/captured/catalog-search-PHY-270.html - Schedule:
sources/inbox/2026-06-30-thematic-fab-optics-quantum-id-evidence/source_snapshot/captured/schedule-PHY-270.json - Catalog:
sources/inbox/2026-06-30-engineering-catalog-evidence/source_snapshot/captured/catalog-search-PHY-270.html - Schedule:
sources/inbox/2026-06-30-engineering-catalog-evidence/source_snapshot/captured/schedule-PHY-270.json - Notes: Quantum-themed catalog course; restored/protected after off-scope CSC/PHY demotion review.