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3.00 Credits
3 credits This is an Internet-based course designed to provide non-science majors with an introduction to the field of astronomy. An interactive, web-based presentation is used in place of a lecture. Students will be able to submit assignments online and have the opportunity to participate in online, text-based, discussion forums. Students will be required to be present for four in-class sessions: the first being an orientation, and the remaining three for midterm and final exams. Adelphi’s online astronomy course combines traditional course material with the most recent discoveries to work at accomplishing the following goals: to help students identify and track objects in the night-time sky, and understand the laws that govern their motion; to provide an understanding of the properties of astronomical objects with a special focus on the solar system; and to review recent developments in astronomy and how they affect our understanding of our place in the universe.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits A journey through the physical wonders of sound. This demonstration course stresses, nonmathematically, the many areas physics and music share in common including hearing, pitch, quality and synthesized sound, physical characteristics of conventional instruments, design of new instruments, computed and computer music, acoustics, electrical reproduction, noise pollution, amplification and matching, formats, temperament, and vibrato.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits Prerequisite: One and one-half years of high school algebra and one year of geometry. An introductory algebra-based course for liberal arts and pre-medical students covering the fundamentals of mechanics, waves, and thermodynamics.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits Prerequisite: A continuation of PHY 111. An introductory non-calculus based course covering electricity, magnetism, light, and modern physics. PHY113 Physics for Science Majors I 4 credits Corequisite: MTH 141. Kinematics (speed, velocity, acceleration), vectors, Newton’s laws of motion, dynamics (force and acceleration), equilibrium, gravitation, rotational motion, energy, wave motion, sound and thermodynamics. A number of problems will be solved using personal computers.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits Prerequisites: PHY 113 and MTH 141. Corequisite: MTH 142. Calculus-based introductory physics course covering electromagnetism and optics. Topics covered include: electrostatics, magnetism, electromagnetic induction, Maxwell’s equations, geometrical optics, physical optics (polarization, interference and diffraction). Personal computers will be used to solve a number of problems.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course explores the physics of everyday life. It introduces physics concepts using technologies and situations that surround us as the launching point for this exploration. Skating, sports, bicycles, rockets, air conditioners, microwave ovens, etc., lead to discussion of kinematics, dynamics, momentum, energy, thermodynamics, electrodynamics, and more.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits Prerequisites: None. This course examines the universe, its structure and origins, the Big Bang Theory and initial conditions. It also examines the evolution of the universe and the formation of stars, planetary systems and galaxies. There will be supervised observations in the physics observatory and laboratory demonstrations in the optics laboratory.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits Prerequisites: None. Laboratory demonstrations of a variety of physical phenomena associated with light are presented and their underlying physical principles are discussed. Reflection, refraction, transmission, mirror and lenses, color, wave motion, polarization, holography, and several other phenomena are demonstrated including applications to photography and the principles of vision.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits Prerequisites: PHY 113, PHY 114, and MTH 142. Series and complex numbers, vectors, matrix algebra, and fluid dynamics, fluid flow and divergence, circulation and the curl, applications of first-order differential equations to physics problems, numerical integration, numerical methods and second-order differential equations (Euler method, Runge-Kutta method), oscillatory motion, resonance, forced oscillations.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits Prerequisites: PHY 113, PHY 114, and MTH 142. Special theory of relativity, wave and particle features of photons and electrons. Foundations of quantum mechanics, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, atomic structure, structure of nuclei and studies on condensed matter.
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