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1.00 Credits
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5.00 Credits
Elements of mechanics, electricity, and modern physics. This course is designed to cover these selected areas of physics in a somewhat abbreviated fashion in a single term, and cannot be used as a prerequisite for other physics courses. Includes two laboratory periods per week. Prerequisite: MATH 90 or satisfaction of the Entry Level Mathematics requirement.
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5.00 Credits
Newtonian mechanics; relationships to contemporary physics; field and laboratory investigations with emphasis on the physical measurements of motion. Three hours lecture/discussion and two three-hour laboratories per week. Offered with non-calculus based text. Prerequisite: MATH 192 or equivalent.
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5.00 Credits
Maxwellian electromagnetics; relationships to contemporary physics; field and laboratory investigations in electricity, electronics, magnetism, and heat. Three hours lecture/discussion and two three-hour laboratories per week. Offered with non-calculus-based text. Prerequisite: PHYS 201.
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5.00 Credits
Modern physics; principles of relativity, quantum phenomena, light, and the structure of matter. Observations and investigations related to atomic, nuclear, and molecular structure. Three hours lecture/discussion and two three-hour laboratories per week. Offered with non-calculus based text. Prerequisite: PHYS 202.
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5.00 Credits
Circuit laws and analysis of DC and AC circuits. Physical properties, electrical characteristics and circuits of discrete and integrated electrical and electronic devices. Design and construction of circuits with instrumentation applications. Three hours lecture/discussion and two three-hour laboratories per week. Prerequisites: PHYS 222, MATH 202, 222 or 232 (MATH 203 or 233 recommended).
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6.00 Credits
Recommended for majors in the physical sciences, mathematics, and engineering. Vectors, kinematics, the laws of motion, work and energy, conservation of momentum, rotational kinematics and dynamics, oscillations and wave motion, sound, fluids. Five hours lecture/discussion, three hours laboratory. Prerequisite or co-requisite: MATH 201.
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6.00 Credits
Temperature and heat, kinetic theory of gases, laws of thermodynamics. Electric charges and forces, the electric field and potential for stationary charges, capacitance. Electric currents and circuits, the magnetic field and forces, magnetic induction, Maxwell's equations in integral form. Five hours lecture/discussion, three hours laboratory. Prerequisite: PHYS 221, Co-requisite MATH 202.
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6.00 Credits
Physical optics, relativity, black-body radiation, wave-particle duality, atomic models, introduction to quantum theory, atomic structure, radioactivity and nuclear structure. Five hours lecture/discussion, three hours laboratory. Prerequisite: PHYS 222.
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3.00 Credits
Application of physical principles to materials, their basic structures and properties. Emphasis on mechanical and chemical properties. Prerequisites: CHEM 211, PHYS 221 or permission of the instructor.
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