Topics covered include mechanics, heat, sound, and properties of matter. Students who have not taken high school physics may wish to take PHY 111 as a preparatory course.
Topics covered include electricity and magnetism, optics, atomic physics, and nuclear physics.
A survey of fundamental ideas in the physical sciences for students not majoring in science, mathematics, or engineering. Attempts to establish a broad awareness of the evolution and present scope of human knowledge of the physical world, focusing on nature's basic forces and structures. Emphasis is given to technological applications of knowledge and to social concerns generated by scientific progress. An introduction to the study of the earth's atmosphere. Fundamental concepts of meteorology and atmospheric science are presented.