PHYSICS
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General Physics IDescription: Meets the requirements for students majoring in biological science, including pre-medical and pre-dental students. This course examines: properties of matter; study of kinematics and mechanics, including Newton's laws, energy, momentum, and rotational motion; fluid mechanics; gravitation; study of oscillatory motion; study of wave motion, including sound waves. 54 hours lecture and 54 hours laboratory. (Letter grade only)
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General Physics IIDescription: Meets the requirements for students majoring in biological science, including pre-medical and pre-dental students. This course includes: study of thermodynamics, including temperature, methods of heat transfer, calorimetry, ideal gas law, laws of thermodynamics, entropy, and heat engines; study of electricity and magnetism, including electric field and potential, Gauss' Law, current, Ohm's Law, capacitance and inductance, Faraday's Law; study of optics, including electromagnetic waves, reflection, refraction, interference, and diffraction; study of modern physics, including the photoelectric effect, de Broglie wavelength, quantum numbers, and radioactive decay. 54 hours lecture and 54 hours laboratory. (Letter grade or Pass/No Pass option)
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MechanicsDescription: Examines vectors, particle kinematics and dynamics, work and power, conservation of energy and momentum, rotation, oscillations and gravitation. 54 hours lecture and 54 hours laboratory. (Letter grade only)
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Electricity and MagnetismDescription: Study of electric fields, voltage, current, magnetic fields, electromagnetic induction, alternating currents and electromagnetic waves. 54 hours lecture and 54 hours laboratory. (Letter grade only)
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Heat, Light and WavesDescription: Examines fluid mechanics; temperature, heat transfer, thermal properties of matter, laws of thermodynamics; oscillations and waves; reflection, refraction, lenses and mirrors, interference, and diffraction; introduction to special relativity and modern physics. 54 hours lecture and 54 hours laboratory. (Letter grade only)
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Modern PhysicsDescription: The study of special relativity, the old quantum theory, fundamentals of quantum mechanics and basic applications of these theories to the hydrogen atom. 72 hours lecture. (Letter grade only)
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Introduction to General PhysicsDescription: A non-science major physics course covering mechanics, properties of matter, heat, sound, light, electricity and magnetism, and nuclear physics. 54 hours lecture. (Letter grade only)
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Physics LaboratoryDescription: An optional laboratory science course for the non-science major. Emphasis on laboratory techniques, student experimentation and laboratory demonstrations. 54 hours laboratory. (Letter grade only)
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