Four hours lecture and one laboratory per week. Mathematics 109 or 110 or satisfactory performance on the mathematics placement test. 110 Introductory Astronomy 4FS Designed to help the students appreciate and understand their physical environment and the methods of physical science through the study of basic astronomy. Four lectures and one recitation or laboratory per week. Wave Motion 3I Mechanical waves, sound, light, optics, and waveparticle dualism.
Students devote fulll days to working in the laboratory.
A combination of lectures and learning by inquiry are employed. Computers are used for data acquisition, data analysis, and mathematical modeling. Mathematics 130 or 131 or concurrent enrollment in Mathematics 131. Physics 221 is prerequisite to 222. 301 Thermal and Statistical Physics 3S Thermodynamics, kinetic theory, and an introduction to statistical mechanics.