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3.00 Credits
3 cr. 4 hr. This course is designed to help non-science students in developing a meaningful and functional understanding of key physical science concepts and methodology. Topics include motion, force, heat, energy and nature of matter. The course is taught with a combination of lectures, group discussions and learning-by-doing activities. The emphasis is to provide students with open-ended problem solving environments that facilitate insight into the nature of science as an intellectual activity, and to encourage students to explore alternate conceptions of physical phenomena. Q
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. 4 hr. The course studies the environment, the effects of pollution on the environment, ecosystems and natural balance. Relevant background material in physical science is taught as needed. Prerequisites: PHYS 1100, GEOG 1300, or equivalent.
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4.00 Credits
4 cr. 6 hr. The class serves as an introduction to Physics. Class work includes a brief treatment of force, work and energy with an emphasis on the nature of waves, optics, and electricity.
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. 3 hr. After a brief introduction to the history of astronomy in Western civilization we discuss at an elementary level how light is produced and how telescopes work with light. In turn we then examine the solar system (comparative planetology) and the birth, evolution and death of stars and in the end consider the birth and death of the universe. Q, SMT
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4.00 Credits
4 cr. 5 hr. This first-semester general college physics course consists of studies in the principle and application of classical mechanics, waves, sound and heat. Typical topics include description of motions, Newton's laws of motion, Kepler's law of planetary motion, universal gravitation, work and energy, conservation laws, temperature, heat, and laws of thermodynamics. Q Prerequisite: MATH 1300 or equivalent.
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4.00 Credits
4 cr. 5 hr. This second-semester general college physics course consists of studies and applications of wave motions, sound, electricity, magnetism, light and optics. Typical topics include Coulomb's law, electric force and field, potential and capacitance, electric circuits, magnetic force and field, magnetic forces on moving charges, electric induction, laws of reflection and refraction, mirrors and lenses, optical instruments, interference and diffraction of light. Q, SMT Prerequisite: MATH 1300 or equivalent and PHYS 2300.
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4.00 Credits
4 cr. 5 hr. The principles and applications of classical mechanics and heat are studied using the language of calculus. SMT Prerequisite: MATH 2400. 188 College Catalog
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4.00 Credits
4 cr. 5 hr. The principles and applications of classical electricity, magnetism, and optics are studied using the language of calculus. SMT Prerequisite: PHYS 2600.
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. 3 hr. This third-semester of general college physics course, discusses the inadequacy of classical physics and introduces the theories and models of modern physics. Topics covered in class work include special relativity and the development of quantum theory as depicted in blackbody radiation, photoelectric effect, and X-rays, the wave function and the uncertainty principle, atomic spectra, Bohr's model of hydrogen, electronic configuration of atoms, the exclusion principle and the periodic table, properties of nuclei, binding energy, radioactivity and the decay processes, radiation hazards, and nuclear reactions. Q Prerequisites: PHYS 2300 and PHYS 2400.
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. 3 hr. The course examines the inadequacies of classical physics, including the uncertainty principle, Schrodinger equation, physical interpretation of wave function, energy levels, harmonic oscillator, hydrogen atom and perturbation theory. Prerequisites: PHYS 3000 and MATH 2400.
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