Basic physical laws governing mechanics, thermodynamics, and waves; examples and applications from the biological sciences, with lab. High school algebra and basic trigonometry required. The recommended introductory physics course for majors in the biological sciences and related areas. (Gen.Ed. PS)

Basic physical laws governing mechanics, thermodynamics, and waves; examples and applications from the biological sciences, with lab. High school algebra and basic trigonometry required. The recommended introductory physics course for majors in the biological sciences and related areas. (Gen.Ed. PS)

Basic physical laws governing mechanics, thermodynamics, and waves; examples and applications from the biological sciences, with lab. High school algebra and basic trigonometry required. The recommended introductory physics course for majors in the biological sciences and related areas. (Gen.Ed. PS)

An introductory course on many aspects of light. The course will include discussion and classroom demonstrations of important aspects of light, shadows, reflection, light in nature (rainbows, mirages, etc.), lenses, image formation, reading glasses, photography (film, digital, f-numbers, etc.), the eye, perception, polarizing materials, where color comes from, color in nature, color mixing (lights and pigments), lasers, among other things.

The great 20th-century revolutions in scientific thought: Einstein's Theory of Rel-ativity and Quantum Mechanics, at a level appropriate for non-science majors: Spacetime, length and time dilation, blackholes, big-bang cosmology; wave-particle duality, black hole evaporation. What constitutes a scientific theory. Prerequisite: Basic Math Skills (R1). (Gen.Ed. PS)

Production and perception of musical sound. Waves; the physical basis of pitch, timbre, resonance, dissonance, and musical scales. Sound production in musical instruments and auditorium acoustics. Elementary algebra and powers of ten notation used. (Gen.Ed. PS)

The fundamental ideas of physics, a minimum of mathematics. Selected phenomena of everyday existence (motion, sound, electricity). Physics beyond the range of our senses: the realm of atoms and nuclei (quantum physics), the universe (cosmology), high speed phenomena (relativity). For nonscience majors. No laboratory. Prerequisite: Basic Math Skills (R1) proficiency, or equivalent. (Gen.Ed. PS)

This honors section will be shaped by the instructor of the course. It will cover material not regularly covered in the PHY422 main syllabus. This can be in the form of extra course work, more in-depth study of regular syllabus material, applications of the material to applied cases, a computational component that uses what covered in class, etc. This is a 1-credit honors colloquium to accompany PHY422, "Electricity and Magnetism"

Explore higher level/advanced topics related to electromagnetism that build on and enhance what is learned in lecture. Students are expected to complete two advanced problems and make a final in-section presentation on an advanced topic that uses the concepts of electromagnetism.

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