35 courses with the subject PHYS, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
PHYS 152Principles of Physical Science3
Gives students some of the major basic concepts of physics, chemistry, astronomy, geology, and meteorology with particular emphasis on their relevant applications. Emphasizes the role of physical science in the framework of contemporary society. Lecture: three hours per week.
Designed especially for students with high academic potential. Includes essential elements of system measurements, physics, chemistry, astronomy, and earth science. Challenge students to develop the spirit of scientific investigation and an appreciation for the physical universe. Lecture: three hours per week.
Experiments are designed to help students learn laboratory skills and allow them to experience how scientific models are usually verified. Two hours of laboratory per week.
Fundamental principles of physics based on elementary algebra and trigonometry. Deals with vectors, mechanics of particles and rigid bodies covering kinematics and dynamics; heat and kinetic theory of gases. Lecture: three hours per week.
Laboratory experiments reinforce the concepts covered in PHYS 181C and develop skills in the experimental set-up, data collection, and data analysis and interpretation of experimental data. Laboratory: two hours per week.
A continuation of PHYS 181 . Topics include electrostatics and electromagnetism; and wave motions involving light and sound. Lecture: three hours per week.
Laboratory experiments reinforce the concepts covered in PHYS-182 and PHYS-192 and develop skills in the experimental set-up, data collection, data analysis and interpretation of experimental data. Laboratory: two hours per week.
An introductory physics course based on calculus. Covers vectors and mechanics of particles and rigid bodies covering kinematics and dynamics. Lecture: three hours per week.
A continuation of PHYS 192 . Topics include Optics, modern physics, and other physics topics not covered in PHYS 191 and PHYS 192 . Lecture: 3 hours per week.
Introduces the vector calculus and kinematics of particles. It also deals with dynamics of particles in one-dimensional problems. Lecture: 3 hours per week.
Develops further, concepts built in PHYS 201 . Deals with two-and three-dimensional motions more rigorously. The basic concepts of rigid body dynamics are also developed. Lecture: 3 hours per week.
For both science and non-science majors. Presents a clear, vivid, non-mathematical treatment of the frontiers of modern astronomy. Students become conversant and acquainted with new developments regarding pulsars, black holes, quasars, and controversies surrounding redshifts and other phenomenological concepts concerning astronomy. Lecture: 3 hours per week. Offered: F; S.
Laboratory exercises, demonstration exercises, and elementary calculations to illustrate methods used in astronomy. Some constellation study with planetarium visits and occasional evening observation. Laboratory: 2 hours per week.
The biological principles of physics. Discussions include optics of sight, corrective lenses for long and short sightedness, physics of heart pacers, nerve impulse conduction, cell membrane integrity and function, mechanics of muscle function, elasticity in cell biology, the physics of biological locomotion, and electromagnetism of the human body, a very efficient conductor of electricity (a basis for electrocution). Lecture: 3 hours per week.
Students carry out experiments that illustrate physics in biological systems and how designs of various medical devices such as heart pace makers and hearing aids are based on the principles of biophysics.
The biological principles of Physics. Discussions include a review of diffusion and random walk, Entropy, Temperature, and Free Energy, Entropic Forces, and Chemical Forces, Enzyme kinetics, force generation by kinesin, Mitochondria, proton pumps, ATP synthase, and flagellar motor. Lecture: 3 hours per week.
Students carry out experiments that illustrate Physics in biological systems and learn how to operate various bio-physical instruments such as spectroscopy, electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, crystallography, and NMR.
Principles introduced in PHYS 301 are further developed. The theory of magnetism is developed and the Maxwell’s Equations of electrodynamics are derived. The solutions of such equations which lead to electromagnetic waves are also demonstrated. Lecture: 3 hours per week.
Basic ideas of propagation of light, first considered as rays and then as waves. Such topics as interferences, diffraction, and polarization treated in detail. Knowledge of electricity and magnetism is desirable, but not necessary. Lecture: 3 hours per week.
Intermediate course in applied electronics. Study of basic components, circuits and systems in modern electrical instrumentation. Emphasizes transistors, Field Effect Transistors (FET), and Silicon Controlled Rectifier (SCR). Lecture: 3 hours per week.
Introduces experiment verification of some principle of physics which could not be done in General Physics/University Physics Laboratory. Laboratory: 4 hours per week.
Basic knowledge of atomic Physics and Quantum Mechanics as well as basic interactions of ionizing and non-ionizing radiation important in medicine. Topics include photon, electron, and neutron interactions, high LET radiation, radioactivity, ultrasound interactions, and laser interactions. Also includes conventional X-ray radiology, digital radiography, computed tomography, ultrasound, and magnetic resonance imaging.
The concepts developed in PHYS 481 are further developed. Topics involve X-ray, Compton Effect, pair production, classical quantum theory, Schrödinger equations, quantum mechanical treatment of hydrogen atom and some basic ideas of solid-state physics. Lecture: 3 hours per week.
This Physics Capstone course is a requirement for all graduating seniors majoring in physics. It is a consolidation of fundamental concepts in classical mechanics, relativity, electromagnetism, optics, waves, thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, quantum mechanics, atomic physics and special related topics. Lecture: 2 hours per week; Seminar: 1 hour per week.
Faculty supervision of student research in current topics of Physics. Open to juniors and seniors with demonstrated ability to carry out independent work in Physics. Students may enroll for up to two semester hours credit.
