This course satisfies the science requirement for the bachelor of arts and bachelor of science curricula and may be taken by forestry, pre-dental and premedical students. Algebra and trigonometry. Designed for liberal arts students. Students should gain an appreciation for the basic ideas in physics and how these ideas have contributed to the development of western culture by their influence on philosophy, religion and technology. A course relating physical principles to biological applications.
Lectures stress concepts of atomic physics, basic electricity, energetics, heat, and optics.
The variety of instruments normally found in biological laboratories are used in lab to study biological systems. Lab to be taken with PHYS 211. Basic experiments in mechanics, wave motion, and heat. Coulombs law, fields, potential, magnetism, inducted emf, simple circuits, geometrical optics, interference, diffraction, and polarization. Lab to be taken concurrently with PHYS 212.