PHYSI 101 Conceptual Physics

(P1 900L)
Prerequisite: Placement into ENG 099 or higher; placement into MATH 090 or higher or completion of MATH 085 with C or better.
3 lectures, 2 lab hrs per week: 4 hrs transfer credit
This course is a one semester conceptual study of the major topics and concepts of physics. Topics include description of motion, Newton’s laws of motion and universal gravitational law, the planets and Kepler’s laws, energy, impulse and momentum, fluid mechanics, temperature, heat and laws of thermodynamics, electricity and magnetism, wave motion, sound waves and acoustic music, EM waves and optics, introduction to modern physics and cosmology, and solid-state physics.