SCI104 General Physics

Lead Faculty: Dr. Nataliya V. Serdyukova

Course Description

Non-calculus based general physics course for earth and life science majors. Study of force, laws of motion, heat, fluid mechanics, electricity, magnetism, light (optics) and modern physics.
This is a non-calculus-based General Physics course for Earth and Life Science majors. The course includes the following basic parts of General Physics: Mechanics, Fluids, Temperature, Kinetic theory and Gas laws, Heat and Heat Transfer methods, Oscillatory Motion and Waves, Electricity and Magnetism, Electromagnetic Waves, Optics, Special Relativity, Atomic Physics, Radioactivity and Nuclear Physics, Particle Physics.

Prerequisite

2 years of high school algebra and MTH 204 or 215 or 216 A/B

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