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4.00 Credits
Four Credits Spring Semester Brief introduction to the basic concepts of vector calculus, such as line and surface integrals, integral version of Gauss' theorem and Stokes' theorem; Coulomb's law, insulatorsand metals; electrostatic induction, potential energy; capacitance; currents, resistance, basic circuits, batteries; magnetism and currents; Ampere's law; motion of free charges in magnetic fields, mass spectroscopy; magnetic induction, Faraday's law; Maxwell's equations,electromagnetic waves; geometric and wave optics; light as photons, photoelectric effect. Three periods of lecture and two hours of laboratory a week. Prerequisite: MA 123 or MA 125; Corequisite: MA 124 or MA 126.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters The development and establishment of heliocentric theory. Topics include celestial observations, the geocentric universe, Copernicus' rejection of geocentrism, Kepler'sand Galileo's contributions to heliocentrism, 17th-centuryobservations, and the gradual acceptance of heliocentrism. The course stresses exercises, observation, establishment of data, preparation of tables, and construction of mathematical models. The course stresses exercise, observation, establishment of data, preparation of tables, collection of data, and construction of mathematical models. May not earn credit for both SC 192 and PY 192.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters History of the relation between science and religion from Copernicus to David Hume: Catholic and Protestant reactions to the Copernican theory; the Galileo affair; rationalism and empiricism; Puritanism and science; the Enlightenment critique of religion; and the belief in science and roles of reason in religion. May not earn credit for both SC 193 and PY 193.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Fall Semester The development of classical mechanics. Topics include medieval Aristotelian principles of motion; the development of statics, kinematics and dynamics along with mathematical advances in the 17th century; and Newton's Principia. The course stresses exercises, observation, laboratory experiments, establishment of data, and the development of mathematical analysis and laws. May not earn credit for both SC 193 and PY 194.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Introduction to the mysteries of quantum physics and relativity for the general student. Despite nearly a century of confirmations, the basic rules of quantum physics and relativity are still strange, mysterious, and counterintuitive, and fun to think about. This course examines these rules - their discovery, content, and experimental verifications - and the people who created them - Einstein, Bohr, DeBroglie, Heisenberg, etc. You do not need to be a science major to take this course.
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4.00 Credits
Four Credits Each Fall and Spring Semesters Fundamentals of physics for students of biology. Topics in classical mechanics, heat and molecular view of gases; electricity and magnetism, optics and modern physics. Three periods of lecture and two hours of laboratory a week for two semesters. Prerequisites: MA 123-124 or MA 125-126.
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4.00 Credits
Four Credits Each Fall and Spring Semesters Fundamentals of physics for students of biology. Topics in classical mechanics, heat and molecular view of gases; electricity and magnetism, optics and modern physics. Three periods of lecture and two hours of laboratory a week for two semesters. Prerequisites: MA 123-124 or MA 125-126.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Fall Semester Mechanical and electrical examples of damped, forced and resonant oscillations; the mechanical wave equation via Newton's mechanics; the electromagnetic wave equation via Maxwell's equations; traveling sound and electromagnetic waves; diffraction and interference, geometrical limit of wave optics. Prerequisites: MA 123-124 or MA 125-126; and PY 121-122.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Offered Alternate Years Lagrange's equations; central forces; kinematics and equations of motion for rigid bodies; Hamilton's equations; Hamilton-Jacobi equations; small oscillations; elements of fluid dynamics. Prerequisites: MA 123-124 or MA 125-126; and PY 121-122.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Not Offered 2007-2008 Earth and the solar system, the search for planets around other stars and a discussion about the probability of finding life on other planets or their moons. Topics include: birth of the solar system; early history of the Earth; emergence of life on our planet; mass life extinctions; space exploration of planets and moons in our solar system and search for extraterrestrial life; recent successful search for planets around other stars; possibility of discovering Earth-like planets around other stars in the near future. The course will include class activities, such as labs, and repeated visits to our astronomical observatory.
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