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5.00 Credits
These lecture/laboratory/recitation course deals with mechanics, heat, sound, (in PHYS 001) light, electricity and magnetism, and modern physics (in PHYS 002), and are algebra-based. Prerequisites: algebra, trigonometry.
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3.00 Credits
Review and applications of basic mathematics encountered in General Physics 001, 002, 007 and 009. Problems and practical work will be stressed. Not open for credit for students taking General Physics 013, 014, and 015.
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5.00 Credits
This lecture/laboratory/recitation course treats the topics of general physics, with emphasis on examples for nursing and allied health students.
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5.00 Credits
Lecture/recitation course treats mechanics, gravity, sound, thermodynamics, fluids, electricity, magnetism, light, optics, waves, and some modern physics topics with emphasis on topics of interest to architecture students.
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3.00 Credits
each semester. Two-semester course. First Semester: Emphasis on the Solar System. Historical attempts to explain the observed phenomena of the sky. Techniques of contemporary astronomical science. Physical nature of the sun and planets. Life beyond Earth. Current ideas about the origin, age and fate of the Solar System. Second Semester: Emphasis on stars and galaxies. Determination of the distribution and the motions of stars and galaxies in space, their physical properties and their life histories. Violent cosmic phenomena. Expansion of the universe. Search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Two hours of lecture and two hours of laboratory each week. Prerequisites: algebra, and trigonometry.
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4.00 Credits
Survey course for non-science majors. Historical development of astronomy, structure of the solar system, properties of planets and comets, recent advances in the exploration of space, the sun and its characteristics, origin and age of the solar system. Introduction to telescopes, spectroscopy and electromagnetic radiation. Life and death of stars, structure of galaxies, cosmology of the universe. Results of space age astronomy. Three hours of lecture and two hours of laboratory each week.
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3.00 Credits
This lecture/recitation calculus-based course covers modern physics topics. Prerequisite: PHYS 014 and MATH-156, MATH-157.
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1.00 Credits
Laboratory courses to accompany General and Modern Physics courses PHYS 013, 014, and 0l5 respectively.
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2.00 Credits
Astrophotography; Use of the telescope and auxiliary instrumentation. Photoelectric photometry, spectroscopic observations. One lecture and one evening of observing each week, weather permitting. Prerequisites: algebra, trigonometry, and a previous course in astronomy.
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3.00 Credits
The celestial sphere and its phenomena. Gravitation. Review of our understanding of the physics of members of the solar system, stars, and galaxies. Large-scale properties of the observable universe. Coreqs.: General Physics, Calculus.
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