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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Wave characteristics, sound properties, resonance, the human voice and hearing, basic musical instruments, analysis and synthesis of complex waves, acoustics.
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4.00 Credits
Introduction to the modern understanding of light and color. The wave and particle nature of light, light in modern physics (spectra, lasers, holography), atmospheric optics (blue sky, rainbows, ice crystal displays, etc.), the camera and photography, simple optical instruments (lenses, mirrors, eyeglasses, telescopes, binoculars), the human eye and vision, illusions, color, color perception and color theory. (4 hrs lect)
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4.00 Credits
Introduction to physics without the use of calculus. Vectors, kinematics, Newton's laws of motion, work and energy, momentum, torque, fluids, thermal physics, laws of thermodynamics, oscillations and waves. (4 hrs lect, 2 hrs lab)
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4.00 Credits
Coulomb's law, electric fields, electric potential, capacitance, electric current, resistance, DC circuits, magnetism, induction, reflection and refraction of light, mirrors and lenses, interference and diffraction, optical instruments, radioactivity (4 hrs lect, 2 hrs lab)
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4.00 Credits
Vectors, kinematics, laws of motion, circular motion, work-energy theorem, conservation principles, rotational motion, gravitation, simple harmonic oscillations, wave phenomena, fluid mechanics, thermal properties of matter, kinetic theory, laws of thermodynamics. (4 hrs lect and rec, 2 hrs lab)
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4.00 Credits
Coulomb's law, electric field, Gauss's law, electricpotential, capacitance, dielectrics, current, resistance, circuits, magnetic field, Ampere's law, inductance, Faraday's law, AC circuits, Maxwell's equations,electromagnetic waves, nature of light, reflection, refraction, optical instruments, interference, diffraction. (4 hrs lect and rec, 2 hrs lab)
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5.00 - 10.00 Credits
An on- or off-campus learning experience individually arranged between a student and a faculty member for academic credit in areas not covered in the regular curriculum.
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4.00 Credits
Special relativity, quantum nature of matter and radiation, Bohr-Sommerfeld atom, atomic spectra, uncertainty principle, Schrodinger equation, hydrogen atom, electron spin, Pauli principle, periodic table, radioactivity, fission and fusion of nuclei, properties of nuclei. (4 hrs lect, 3 hrs lab)
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3.00 Credits
A hands-on practical course in electronics. Analog electronics including AC and DC circuit analysis, passive circuit elements, pn junctions, transistors, and op-amp circuits. Digital electronics including combinational logic, sequential logic, memory, CPU, and assembly programming. (3 hrs lect, 3 hrs lab)
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5.00 - 10.00 Credits
An on- or off-campus learning experience individually arranged between a student and a faculty member for academic credit in areas not covered in the regular curriculum.
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