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PHYS 1401 College Physics I

Prerequisites: MATH 1314, 1316; Must also be placed into GUST 0341 (or higher) in reading.

Credit: 4 (3 lecture, 3 lab)

Non-calculus based course for medical related majors, architecture majors, technology majors, and other non-engineering and non-science majors . Topics include motion and forces, work and energy, momentum and collision, and the thermal properties of matter. Laboratory exercises include selected related experiments on these topics. Core Curriculum Course.


PHYS 1402 College Physics II

Prerequisite: PHYS 1401; Must also be placed into GUST 0341 (or higher) in Reading. Credit: 4 (3 lecture, 3 lab)

Continuation of non-Calculus based physics for medical related majors, architecture majors, technology majors and other non-engineering and non-science majors. Topics include wave motion, electricity, magnetism, electromagnetic waves, optics, and topics in modern physics. Laboratory exercises include selected related experiments on these topics. Core Curriculum Course.

 

PHYS 2325 University Physics I

 

Prerequisites: Must be placed into GUST 0341 (or higher) in reading

and be placed into MATH 2413 (or Higher). Credit: 3 (3 lecture, 1 lab)

A calculus-based physics course designed specifically for chemistry, physics, and

engineering majors . Topics include principles of mechanics, sound, wave phenomena, kinetic theory, fluid flow, and thermal physics. Core Curriculum Course. (formerly PHYS 2425)

 

PHYS 2326 University Physics II

 

Pre-requisites:.PHYS 2425 or 2325 ; Must also be placed into GUST 0341(or higher) in reading and be placed

Into MATH 2414 (or higher).Credit: 3 (3 lecture, 1 lab).

Continuation of calculus based physics. Course designed specifically for chemistry,

physics, and engineering majors. Includes principles of electricity and magnetism, optics, electromagnetic waves, relativity, kinetic theory, introduction to quantum theory, thermal physics, and other physics topics . Core Curriculum Course. (formerly PHYS 2426)

 

PHYS 2425 General Technical Physics I

 

Prerequisite MATH 2413 Credit: 4 (4 lecture). A calculus based physics course designed specifically for chemistry, physics, and engineering majors. Topics include principles of mechanics, sound, wave phenomena, kinetic theory, fluid flow, and thermal physics. Core Curriculum course.

 

PHYS 2426 General Technical Physics II

Prerequisite PHYS 2425 and MATH 2414  Credit:4(4 lecture). Topics include principles of electricity and magnetism, optics, electromagnetic waves, relativity, and introductory quantum theory. Core Curriculum course.

PHYS 2125 Physics Laboratory I

Prerequisite/Corequisite: PHYS 2325; Must be placed into GUTST 0341 (or Higher) in reading and be placed into MATH 2413 (or higher).Credit: 1 (3 lab)

Selected laboratory experiments related to topics in PHYS 2325 (University Physics I)

for science and engineering majors . Core Curriculum Course.

 

PHYS 2126 Physics Laboratory II

 

Prerequisite/Corequisite: PHYS 2326; Must be placed into GUST 0341 (or Higher) in reading and be placed into MATH 2414 (or higher).Credit: 1 (3 Lab).

Selected laboratory experiments related to topics in PHYS 2326 (University Physics II)

for science and engineering majors . Core Curriculum Course.

 

PHYS 1305 Physics for Health Sciences

 

Prerequisites: Must be placed into Gust 0341 (or higher) in reading and be placed into MATH 0312 (or take MATH 0308 as a co-requisite).Credit:3 (2 lecture, 2 lab).

Topics include physical mechanics applied to the skeletal frame, gravity and blood circulation, friction at body joints, hydrostatic change of blood pressure, heat transfer in humans, thermodynamics of biological systems, principles of electromagnetic radiation with respect to the inner body, and electrical hazards in patient care areas . Core Curriculum Course.

 

PHYS 1306 Current Topics in Physics

 

Prerequisites: Must be placed into GUST 0341 (or higher) in reading and be placed into MATH 0312 (or take MATH 0308 as a co-requisite). Credit: 3 (3 lecture).

Non-science majors are introduced to solar power, nuclear fusion, atomic fission power

plants, superconductivity, liquid helium relativity, elementary particles and symmetry,

electromagnetic radiation, stages of matter, the basic forces in nature, and the dual nature of light . Core Curriculum Course.

 

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