Physics

Designed for non-science majors, this course is a practical introduction to physics and science in everyday life. Lecture demonstrations are used to illustrate physics that we experience in everyday life such as motion, sports, energy and power, gravity and planetary motion, fluids, pressure, aerodynamics, waves, sounds and music, musical instruments, temperature and heat, engines, electricity, lightning, house hold electric circuits, magnets, electric generators, light and colors, images, laser, nuclear energy, radioactivity, and medical imaging technology. This is a lecture only class with no associated lab. $25 science fee.

Introduces the principles and concepts of physics using elementary algebraic procedures. Selected topics from classical and modern physics. Primarily for the non-science major. $25 science fee.

This course is designed for those students that are not majoring in a four-year engineering or physical science degree. Topics include measurement and units, vectors, motion in one and two dimensions, Newton's laws, work and energy, momentum and collisions, circular motion, gravity, and rotational motion. $25 science fee.

Solids and fluids, thermal physics, laws of thermodynamics, electric forces and fields, electrical energy, DC circuits, magnetic forces and fields, electromagnetic induction, and AC circuits. $25 science fee.

Oscillations and waves, electromagnetic waves, geometric optics, physical optics, optical instrument, quantum physics, atomic physics, and nuclear physics. $25 science fee.

A class used to explore new coursework. $25 science fee.

The first quarter of a three-quarter sequence in calculus-based physics for science and engineering students. The course covers topics in mechanics, including kinematics of motion, force, work, energy, momentum, and kinematics and kinetics of rotation. $25 science fee.

The second quarter of a three-quarter sequence in calculus-based physics for science and engineering students dealing with the topics of Gravity, Fluids, and Electromagnetism. $25 science fee.

The third quarter of a three-quarter sequence in calculus-based physics for science and engineering students dealing with the topics of Oscillations and Waves, Thermodynamics, Electromagnetic Waves, Light, and Optics. $25 science fee.

A class used to explore new coursework. $25 science fee.

For official use as a transferred-in course $25 science fee