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Course Descriptions
Physics
| PHYS 100 |
Physics Today (GS) (3 Credits)
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This course is a nonmathematical survey of physics particularly appropriate for the nonscience student. The relevant aspects of physics in the interactions between humans, society and the environment are stressed throughout the course to provide an understanding of our world and ourselves. Discussion ranges from the color of dragonflies to nuclear reactors. Matter and energy are studied from the concept of what keeps it all together to what blows it apart.
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| PHYS 101 |
Introductory Physics I (GL) (4 Credits)
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This course is for students requiring noncalculus based physics. It is a presentation of the fundamentals of physics emphasizing mechanics, heat and wave motion. Physics is treated as a living, expanding adventure that can turn you on to a more perceptive view of physical reality. Insight into the structure, the beauty and the importance of physics is achieved by study and discussion of the central ideas and principles of physics and their relation to the everyday environment. Course meets for 45 hours of lecture and 30 hours of laboratory and 15 hours of discussion per semester. Prerequisite: MATH 109 or equivalent (may be taken concurrently). Usually offered in fall semester.
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| PHYS 102 |
Introductory Physics II (GL) (4 Credits)
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This course is for students requiring noncalculus based physics, presenting fundamentals of physics including electromagnetism, relativity, structure of matter, atomic and nuclear physics. Course meets for 45 hours of lecture, 30 hours of laboratory and 15 hours of discussion per semester. Prerequisite: PHYS 101. Usually offered in spring semester.
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| PHYS 203 |
General Physics: Mechanics and Particle Dynamics (GS) (3 Credits)
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This course is the first semester of a calculus-based general physics course sequence. Laws of motion, force and energy; and principles of mechanics, collisions, linear momentum, rotation and gravitation are studied and used for problem solving. Course meets for 45 hours of lecture and 15 hours of discussion/problem solving per semester. Prerequisite: MATH 203. Usually offered in spring semester.
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| PHYS 204 |
General Physics: Vibrations, Waves, Heat, Electricity and Magnetism (GL) (4 Credits)
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This second semester of a calculus-based general physics course sequence covers vibrations, waves and fluids; heat, kinetic theory and thermodynamics; electrostatics, circuits and magnetism. Course meets for 45 hours of lecture, 45 hours of laboratory, and 15 hours of discussion/problem solving per semester.Prerequisites: PHYS 203 and MATH 204. Usually offered in fall semester.
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| PHYS 205 |
General Physics: Electrodynamics, Light Relativity and Modern Physics (GL) (4 Credits)
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This third semester of a calculus-based general physics sequence covers electrodynamics, Maxwell's equations, electromagnetic waves, geometrical optics, interference and diffraction, special theory of relativity, and modern physics. Course meets for 45 hours of lecture, 45 hours of laboratory, and 15 hours of discussion/problem solving per semester. Prerequisite: PHYS 204. Usually offered in spring semester.
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