PHYS 216 – General Physics II
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take PHYS-215. (Required, Previous). | Take PHYS-216L. (Required, Concurrent). Credit Hours: Min: 4; Max: Description: Algebra-based introduction to electricity, magnetism, and optics. Topics include electrical forces, electric fields, direct and alternating current circuits, magnetic forces, magnetic fields, electromagnetic induction, reflection, refraction, diffraction, interference, mirrors, and lenses. Examples from medicine and biology will be included […]
PHYS 216L – General Physics II Laboratory
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take PHYS-216. (Required, Concurrent). Credit Hours: Min: ; Max: Description:
PHYS 201 – Technical Physics II
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take MATH-201. (Required, Previous or concurrent). | Take PHYS-201L. (Required, Concurrent). Credit Hours: Min: 4; Max: Description: Calculus-based introduction to classical mechanics and dynamics. Topics include vectors and vector notation; Newton’s Three Laws of Motion; force; motion in one, two, and three dimensions; linear momentum; torque; rotational motion; angular momentum; work-energy; kinetic and potential […]
MATH 201L – Calculus I Workshop
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take MATH-201. (Required, Concurrent). Credit Hours: Min: 1; Max: Description: Intensive calculus workshop for students enrolled in Mathematics 201. Students work collaboratively in small groups on problems that emphasize the key ideas of calculus. The workshop will also introduce students to technology that can automate and help visualize calculus concepts. Assessed as S (Satisfactory) […]
BIOL 115 – Life Science Lab
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Credit Hours: Min: 1; Max: Description:
PHYS 419 – Sr Seminar in Physics
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Credit Hours: Min: 1; Max: Description: In conjunction with a physics faculty adviser, each student will prepare a formal scientific review article on a physics topic. The topics assigned will be determined based on the interest of the student. The culmination of this course is a detailed written report and an oral presentation.
PHYS 215 – General Physics I
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take MATH-132. (Required, Previous). | Take PHYS-215L. (Required, Concurrent). Credit Hours: Min: 4; Max: Description: Algebra-based introduction to mechanics, thermodynamics, and waves. Topics include motion in one and two dimensions, Newton’s laws of motion, equilibrium, work, energy, momentum, rotational motion, gravity, heat, waves, and sound. Examples from medicine and biology will be included whenever […]
PHYS 215L – General Physics I Laboratory
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take PHYS-215. (Required, Concurrent). Credit Hours: Min: ; Max: Description:
PHYS 202 – Technical Physics III
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take PHYS-201. (Required, Previous). | Take MATH-202. (Required, Concurrent). | Take PHYS-202L. (Required, Concurrent). Credit Hours: Min: 4; Max: Description: Calculus-based introduction to classical electricity and magnetism. Topics include Coulomb’s Law, electric fields, Gauss’ Law, electric potential and potential energy, electric components and circuits, magnetism and magnetic fields, magnetic forces and torques, magnetic materials, […]
PHYS 200 – Technical Physics I
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take MATH-132 or MATH-137. (Required, Previous or concurrent). | Take PHYS-200L. (Required, Concurrent). Credit Hours: Min: 4; Max: Description: Introduction to waves, fluids, thermodynamics, optics, atoms, nuclei, and particles. Topics include wave motion, sound waves, buoyancy, temperature, gas laws, heat, calorimetry, states of matter, laws of thermodynamics, light, reflection, refraction, diffraction, interference, standing waves, […]
MATH 201 – Calculus I
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take 1 group (Take MATH-132; Minimum grade C /Take MATH-137; Minimum grade C /Take MATH-S570). (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: The first of a three-course sequence covering an introduction to the analysis of real-valued functions of one real variable. Topics include the limit of a function, continuity, the derivative, and applications. […]
MATH 132 – College Trig W/Analytic Geometry
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take 1 group (Take MATH-111; Minimum grade C /Take MATH-S540). (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: College trigonometry, to include trigonometric identities as well as the inverse trigonometric functions, parabolas, ellipses, and hyperbolas. Credit toward graduation cannot be earned for both Mathematics 137 and Mathematics 132.