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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
prior to Fall 2002 have the additional prerequisite of concurrent registration or completion of Mathematics 261 or 232.
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0.00 Credits
F and S. This course gives students a broad overview of the fields of physics and astronomy through guest lectures by active researchers, focused readings and discussions of Science, Technology, and Society issues, and presentations by students enrolled in Physics 295 & 296. A student may earn honors credit in an approved introductory physics course by completing a paper and, at the instructor's option, a class presentation on an approved topic. This course may be taken multiple times.
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4.00 Credits
F. This course provides a hands-on study of important concepts in physics. The course is designed specifically to meet the needs of teacher-education students who wish to be elementary- or middle-school science specialists, but is open to other students who satisfy the prerequisites. Topics covered include mechanics (energy, force, friction, work, torque, momentum, and simple machines) , pressure, waves, sound, light, resonance, electricity, magnetism, and radioactivity. Reflections on the nature of physical science and the physical world are included; connections to everyday experience and to technology are discussed. Prerequisite: SCES 112 or high-school physics.
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4.00 Credits
F. This course is designed for those who do not intend to do further work in physics. Topics covered in the two-semester sequence (Physics 221-222) include Newtonian mechanics, fluids, waves, thermodynamics, electricity, magnetism, light, optics, atomic physics, and nuclear radiation. Attention is given throughout to quantitative analysis, empirical methods, experimental uncertainties, perspectives on the assumptions and methodologies of the physical sciences, and the use of physics in the life sciences. Laboratory. Prerequisites: Highschool algebra and trigonometry.
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4.00 Credits
S. A continuation of Physics 221, which is a prerequisite. Laboratory.
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4.00 Credits
F. An introduction to those topics in physics that are applicable to a variety of health science fields, with special emphasis on understanding various physical aspects of the human body. Topics include basic laboratory techniques and instruments for physical measurements, data analysis, basic mechanics, fluids, heat, electrical circuits, sound, optics, radioactivity and x-rays, a discussion of the nature of physical science, and a Christian approach to science. Laboratory. Prerequisites: High school geometry and algebra. Not open to those who have taken or plan to take Physics 221.
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4.00 Credits
F. A study of electric and magnetic forces, fields, and energy, and of the integral form of Maxwell's equations, which describe these fields; electric circuits. Laboratory. Prerequisites: Physics 133 and Mathematics 162. Students who took Mathematics
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4.00 Credits
S. Introduction to the basic properties of waves and light, with applications to optical technology. Development of wave and particle models for light. Interactions between light and matter. Reflection, refraction, in- terference, and diffraction. Devices and applications, including lasers and other light sources, detectors, lenses, thin films, gratings, interferometers, polarizers, phase retarders, fiber optics, nonlinear crystals, and electro-optical technologies. Laboratory. Prerequisites: Physics 235 or Physics 222 and Mathematics 162.
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0.00 Credits
F and S. This course gives students a broad overview of the fields of physics and astronomy through guest lectures by active researchers, focused readings and discussions of Science, Technology, and Society issues, and student presentations. Each student is required to make a presentation on an approved topic. Meets concurrently with Physics 195. Prerequisite: Physics 235 and at least one semester of Physics 195. This course may be taken multiple times. Concurrent enrollment in 296 is not allowed.
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1.00 Credits
F and S. This course is identical to Physics 295, except that each student must pursue an instructor-approved project that will produce an in-depth paper as well as an oral presentation. Prerequisite: Physics 235 and at least one semester of Physics 195. This course may be taken multiple times. Concurrent enrollment in 295 is not allowed. Advanced Theory Courses
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