2009-10 Catalog 
    
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2009-10 Catalog [Archived Catalog]

PHY 101 - Conceptual Physics

(3 credits)
The course includes a study of linear and non-linear motion, Newton’s Laws of Motion, momentum, energy, properties of matter, heat, sound, electricity and magnetism, light, and atomic and nuclear physics. These topics are studied in a conceptual manner that includes little mathematics (beginning high school algebra level). The historical perspective on these concepts and the way in which they were developed is included.