PHYSICS (077)

PHYSICS 132
Electricity, Heat, and Light
Continuation of Physics 131. Writing assignments, as appropriate to the discipline, are part of the course. Prerequisite: Physics 131, or Consent of Department Chairperson. 2 lecture and 2 lab hours per week. 3 credit hours.

PHYSICS 215
Statics
Rigid bodies, fluid statics; friction, moments of inertia, centroids, and virtual work. Writing assignments, as appropriate to the discipline, are part of the course. Prerequisite: Physics 235 and Mathematics 208 or Consent of Department Chairperson. 150 minutes per week. 3 credit hours.

PHYSICS 216
Dynamics
Problems in kinematics, dynamics of a particle and a system of particles, dynamics of a rigid body, work, energy, small oscillations, and general plane motion. Writing assignments, as appropriate to the discipline, are part of the course. Prerequisite: Physics 235 and Mathematics 208 or Consent of Department Chairperson. 150 minutes per week. 3 credit hours

PHYSICS 217
Mechanics of Materials
Study of elastic and inelastic relationships of external forces acting on deformable bodies. Includes stresses and deformations produced by tension and compression, torsion and bending, combined stresses, buckling, repeated loads, impact, and influence of properties of materials. Writing assignments, as appropriate to the discipline, are part of the course. Prerequisite: Engineering 210 or Physics 215 or Consent of Department Chairperson. 150 minutes per week. 3 credit hours.

PHYSICS 220
Physics Calculations and Practice
Detailed practice in problems and application of theory for better understanding of physics; application of ideas of physics such as conservation laws, wave motion, invariance and trigonometry, analytic geometry, vector analysis, probability and statistics. Writing assignments, as appropriate to the discipline, are part of the course. Prerequisite: Physics 221 or Physics 23 or Consent of Department Chairperson. 1 lecture and 2 lab hours per week. 2 credit hours.

PHYSICS 224
Physics Calculations and Practice
For students majoring in engineering or physical sciences. Detailed practice in problems and application of theory involving calculus to provide better understanding of physics. Writing assignments, as appropriate to the discipline, are part of the course. Prerequisite: Physics 225 or Physics 235 or Consent of Department Chairperson. 1 lecture and 2 lab hours per week. 2 credit hours.

PHYSICS 231
General Physics I: Mechanics and Wave Motion
Statics and dynamics of a particle and a rigid body; oscillatory and wave motion with application to sound. Primarily for liberal arts students and those in premedical curricula. Writing assignments, as appropriate to the discipline, are part of the course. Prerequisite: Mathematics 141 and Physics 220 or Consent of Department Chairperson. 2 lecture and 4 lab hours per week. 4 credit hours.

PHYSICS 232
General Physics II: Electricity and Magnetism
Electrostatics, magneto statics, laws of DC and AC circuits, electromagnetic radiations and elementary electronics. Primarily for liberal arts students and those in pre medical curricula. Writing assignments, as appropriate to the discipline, are part of the course. Prerequisite: Physics 231, or Physics 235, or Consent of Department Chairperson. 2 lecture and 4 lab hours per week. 4 credit hours.

PHYSICS 233
General Physics lll: Heat, Light and Modern Physics
Introductory thermodynamics, geometrical and physical optics, atomic and nuclear radiations and associated elementary quantum aspects. Writing assignments, as appropriate to the discipline, are part of the course. Prerequisite: Physics 231 or Physics 232 or Consent of Department Chairperson. 2 lecture and 4 lab hours per week. 4 credit hours.

PHYSICS 235
Engineering Physics l: Mechanics and Wave Motion
Similar to Physics 231; emphasizes methods of analysis of practical and theoretical problems in mechanics and wave motion involving use of elementary calculus. Primarily for students majoring in engineering or the physical sciences. Writing assignments, as appropriate to the discipline, are part of the course. Prerequisite: Credit or concurrent enrollment in Mathematics 207 and Physics 224, or Consent of Department Chairperson. 2 lecture and 4 lab hours per week. 4 credit hours.

PHYSICS 236
Engineering Physics II: Electricity and Magnetism
Similar to Physics 232; emphasizes problem solving involving the use of calculus. Primarily for students majoring in engineering or physical sciences. Writing assignments, as appropriate to the discipline, are part of the course. Prerequisite: Physics 235, or Consent of Department Chairperson. 2 lecture and 4 lab hours per week. 4 credit hours.

PHYSICS 237
Engineering Physics lll: Heat, Light and Modern Physics
Similar to Physics 233; emphasizes practical and theoretical problems involving the use of calculus. Primarily for students majoring in engineering or physical sciences. Writing assignments, as appropriate to the discipline, are part of the course. Prerequisite: Physics 235, or Consent of Department Chairperson. 2 lecture and 4 lab hours per week. 4 credit hours.