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Newton's Laws, work and energy, rotational motion, fluids, thermodynamics, and waves. A noncalculus-based course for students in the life sciences, preprofessional health programs, agriculture, and veterinary medicine. Credit is not given for both
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Electric forces and fields, electric potential, electric circuits, magnetic forces and fields, geometrical optics, relativity, and modern physics. A noncalculus-based course for students in life sciences, preprofessional health programs, agriculture, and veterinary medicine. Credit is not given for both
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Provides an understanding of how undergraduate training in physics can serve as a foundation for careers of both a traditional and non-traditional character in today's world. Includes outside speakers who are representative of the broad spectrum of possible careers after receiving a physics degree. Approved for S/U grading only.
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Designed for students who are interested in explaining and teaching science to children at the elementary school level. A hands-on inquiry-based approach to learning is used. No math or physics background needed. Topics cover most of the National Science Education K-4 Content Standards. Students assemble and keep a science teaching tool-kit.
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Nonmathematical lecture-demonstration course for nonscience students, underscoring the generality and ubiquity of basic physical laws in understanding commonplace phenomena: musical instruments, photography, electric and electronic circuits, television, motors, engines, etc. Credit is not given to engineering majors.
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Special problems in physics: discussions and independent study. Supplement to
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Nonmathematical attempt to bridge the two-culture gap; takes examples from modern physics: relativity, elementary particles, quantum theory, statistics, etc., and covers basic philosophical concepts in physics which pervade all human disciplines: model-making, dynamics, ensemble behavior, and symmetry. Lecture format.
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Special problems in physics: discussions and independent study. Supplement to
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Great discoveries in the last century in particle physics; antimatter, quarks, and neutrinos; insights and discoveries and scientists such as Einstein, Feynman, and Fermi; science vs. science fiction; learning about the subatomic world; influence of fundamental science on society.
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Extra-sensory perception, alien abduction, and psychic crime-solving from the standpoint of scientific inquiry and exploration; the scientific methods, how science progresses, and the types of argumentative fallacies that pervade the pseudoscientific community; examples of good science and how the scientific method is self-correcting.
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The physics of music and musical instruments; acoustical physics, propagation of sound waves, the biological physics of human hearing, and the acoustical physics associated with all types of musical instruments.
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Exploration of systems with simple rules that nevertheless exhibit complex behavior. Lecture demonstrations on fractal growth, chaos, catastrophes, self-assembly, lightning, turbulence, explosions, and human rhythms. Simple computer models which exhibit regular, irregular, symmetric, and self-similar patterns and dynamics. Dynamics of isolated and coupled complex systems and mathematical tools for quantifying complex behavior.
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Approved for both letter and S/U grading. May be repeated.
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Newton's Laws, work and energy, static properties and fluids, oscillations, transverse waves, systems of particles, and rotations. Lectures with demonstrations, discussions and laboratory. For students in engineering, mathematics, physics and chemistry. Credit is not given for both
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Coulomb's Law, electric fields, Gauss' Law, electric potential, capacitance, circuits, magnetic forces and fields, Ampere's law, induction, electromagnetic waves, polarization, and geometrical optics. Lectures with demonstrations, discussions, and laboratory. For students in engineering, mathematics, physics, and chemistry. Credit is not given for both
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Introduction to the first and second laws of thermodynamics including kinetic theory of gases, heat capacity, heat engines, introduction to entropy and statistical mechanics, and introduction to application of free energy and Boltzmann factor. Lectures with demonstrations, discussions, and laboratory. For students in engineering, mathematics, physics and chemistry. Credit is not given for both
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Interference and diffraction, photons and matter waves, the Bohr atom, uncertainty principle, and wave mechanics. Lectures with demonstrations, discussions, and laboratory. For students in engineering, mathematics, physics, and chemistry. Credit is not given for both
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Beginner's-level introduction to the physics of nuclear weapons, nuclear weapon effects, delivery systems, and defenses against nuclear attack; includes presentation of current issues. Nontechnical, but about technology. Designed to assist in making informed judgments about nuclear armaments and arms control. Same as
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Examines kinematics and dynamics. Special relativity, Newtonian kinematics and dynamics in three dimensions, behavior of systems of particles, oscillations, transient response of oscillators, nonlinear oscillators, motion in rotating frames of reference, and rigid body dynamics. Vector analysis is developed as needed. Credit is not given for both
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Experiments and techniques in classical mechanics and electromagnetism. Dynamics of electrical and mechanical oscillators in the linear domain. Fourier analysis of system response. Measurements of electrostatic fields, transmission lines, waves, and radiation. Investigation of electromagnetic phenomena in dielectrics, conductors, and magnetic materials. Instruction in data analysis and report writing. Graduate credit is not given to physics graduate program majors. Prerequisite:
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Wave kinematics; geometrical optics: basic concepts, ray-tracing and matrix formalism, Gaussian imaging by thick lenses, stops, apertures, and intensity relations; interference; interference spectroscopy and coherence; diffraction: Fresnel-Kirchhoff formulation, Fraunhofer case, Fresnel case, and holography; polarized light. Lectures, laboratory, and problems. 4 undergraduate hours. 3 or 4 graduate hours (3 hours without lab). Prerequisite:
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