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4.00 Credits
This sequence is designed to provide a general survey of physics. It emphasizes the relationship between basic physical principles and observations, both in the laboratory and in everyday events around us. It covers topics in mechanics, wave phenomena, electricity and magnetism, and modern physics. The mathematical level of presentation assumes elementary algebra and basic trigonometry. While it serves as the appropriate physics course for students in the life sciences, it is designed to be accessible to all who have an interest in the subject. It can be used to fulfill the natural science distribution requirement. There is one laboratory period per week in addition to class work.
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The nature of energy, its application in modern society and a variety of issues associated with that use. The course covers the physical principles of energy, particularly of electrical energy, electromagnetic (optical) energy, nuclear energy and thermodynamics. The role of energy in society, fossil fuels, electric power plants, automobiles, global warming and the ozone layer and energy conservation; other topics may include nuclear, solar and other sources of energy. This course makes extensive use of elementary algebra and scientific notation. Environmental Studies 107 has a lab component and fills the natural science with lab distribution requirement. Environmental Studies 105 is taught in a lecture format with shorter integrated lab activities and fills the natural science distribution requirement. One of these courses is typically offered every other year. Also offered as Environmental Studies 105, 107.
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This course covers the development of scientific thought in the period 1500 to 1725. It examines changing views of nature in the fields of anatomy and physiology, astronomy and physics. Although the primary focus is on specific scientific developments, they are discussed in the context of concurrent social, economic and religious changes. There are no prerequisites for this course, which can be used to fulfill the science studies distribution requirements. Major credit restricted. Also offered as History 110 and through European Studies.
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Climate is perhaps the single most important and pervasive factor controlling global ecosystems and human well-being. This interdisciplinary course examines global climate from a historical perspective, beginning with the formation of the solar system and continuing through geologic time to the present. Topics include the development of the atmosphere; the workings of the global "heat engine" of atmosphere, oceans and continents; evidence forpast climate change; causes of global climate change; the effects of climate change on human evolution; and the effects of human evolution on the global climate system. This is a team-taught studio lab course satisfying the natural science distribution requirement. Also offered as Environmental Studies 112 and Geology 112 and through Global Studies.
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4.00 Credits
Music is an interaction between the production of sound and the listeners' perceptive abilities. In this course, the physical details of the production and perception of "musical" sound and theirinteraction are explored. In a hands-on, experiment-based course, the physics of sound vibrations and waves, the overtone series, the workings of the human ear, the construction of various types of musical instruments, methods of sound recording (both analog and digital), and other topics are explored. This team-taught course satisfies the natural science distribution requirement; it is typically taught every other year. Also offered as Music 120.
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4.00 Credits
A general study of conservation laws, Newtonian dynamics, special relativity, electricity and magnetism, thermal and statistical physics and the wave nature of light and matter presented at the level of elementary calculus and organized according to the major unifying principles of physics. These courses are recommended for all students majoring in the physical sciences. There is one laboratory period per week in addition to class work. Prerequisite: one year of high school physics is recommended. Corequisite: Mathematics 135, 136.
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A systematic study of the new ideas and discoveries that have transformed physics in the twentieth century. Topics include special relativity, atomic structure, wave-particle duality, basic quantum mechanics, solid-state physics, nuclear structure and elementary particles. One laboratory per week in addition to class work. Prerequisites: Mathematics 136 and Physics 104 or 152.
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A formal presentation of the principles of Newtonian mechanics at the intermediate level. Dynamics of particles and rigid bodies, resonance, rotating reference frames, planetary motion, wave motion and Lagrange's equations. Prerequisites: Physics 152, Mathematics 205.
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A formal study of electricity and magnetism leading to Maxwell's equations and physical optics. Prerequisites: Physics 152, Physics/ Mathematics 333 or permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
In this course we examine a few of the major scientific developments of the 19th and 20th centuries in some detail. Topics include evolution, genetics and a synthesis of the two; the wave theory of light and special relativity; the discovery of the atomic and nuclear structure of matter; and the Manhattan Project. We also examine the various ways historians of science construct the stories they write as well as some of the historiographic issues they face. This course satisfies the science studies distribution requirement. Also offered as History 311 and through European Studies.
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