2012–2013 UNIVERSITY CATALOG - Florida Institute of Technology

PED 1035 INTRODUCTION TO ARCHERY (1 credit). Emphasizes target
shooting with information about its history, shooting techniques, equipment and safety.
PED 1046 INTRODUCTION TO WEIGHTLIFTING (1 credit). Provides a
source of information about safe and reliable habits of weight training to help the
student plan a personalized fitness program.
PED 1050 INTRODUCTION TO FENCING (1 credit). Introduces the fundamentals
of fencing, including the basic elements of footwork, attack and defense.
PED 1060 INTRODUCTION TO TENNIS (1 credit). Develops basic tennis
skills. Includes performance and the application of basic skills, rules and etiquette.
PED 1062 ADVANCED TENNIS (1 credit). Develops advanced tennis skills.
Includes study of performance and the application of advanced skills, rules and
etiquette.
PED 1070 INTRODUCTION TO TEAM SPORTS (1 credit). Introduces the
history, basic skill techniques, rules, terminology and participation in team sports.
Includes volleyball, soccer, softball, basketball, flag football, badminton and ultimate
frisbee. Also focuses on the five components of health-related fitness.
PED 1080 INTRODUCTION TO GOLF (1 credit). Designed for beginning
golfers. Teaches the fundamentals of golf. Emphasizes stance, swing and grip of the
various clubs (wood, iron and putters). Also studies rules, strategy and scoring.
PED 1081 ADVANCED GOLF (1 credit). Emphasizes course play and stroke
refinement.
PED 1090 INTRODUCTION TO KARATE (1 credit). Teaches the basics of
Korean Karate (Tang Soo Do), including basic hand technique, foot technique,
noncontact sparring and philosophy, emphasizing self-defense.
PED 1091 ADVANCED KARATE (1 credit). Advanced training in hand technique,
foot technique and self-defense. Emphasizes mental aspects and defense
against weapons, as well as board-breaking.
PED 1154 INTRODUCTION TO OPEN-WATER DIVING (.5 credits). An
introductory certification course in scuba diving that includes studies in diving
physics, physiology, environment and dive safety.
PED 1155 ADVANCED OPEN-WATER DIVING (.5 credits). A continuing education
certification course for certified divers. Includes compass and natural navigation,
search and recovery, spring, drift and deep diving. Prerequisites: PED 1154.
PED 1160 INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS (1 credit). Meets the breadth
requirement for participants in any approved intercollegiate varsity team sport.
Requires participation as athlete or athletics trainer for a full season of the sport. Also
requires a sports journal and completion of the Intercollegiate Athletics Participation
form (IAP). Should be taken during semester covering end of season.
PED 2160 COACHING THEORY (3 credits). Introduces the theory and applied
practice of athletics coaching for prospective athletics coaches and physical education
teachers. Identifies characteristics and motivations associated with athletes,
components of character development, and the risk and effects of drug use, especially
performance enhancing drugs. (Requirement: Sophomore standing.)
PED 2161 CARE AND PREVENTION OF ATHLETICS INJURIES (3 credits).
Studies the procedures involved in the prevention of athletics injuries. Includes the
effects and dangers of drug use, especially as they relate to performance enhancing
drugs. Focuses on the coach’s role in limiting the potential for injury. Emphasizes the
recognition, care and treatment of injuries. Requires completion of CPR certification.
(Requirement: Sophomore standing.)
PED 3160 THEORY AND PRACTICE OF COACHING BASKETBALL
(2 credits). Prepares future basketball coaches with the knowledge, techniques and
skills required to be successful. Emphasizes the development of proper training
programs and specific game strategy. Includes the history of the game of basketball
and the development and implementation of designed plays. Prerequisites: PED 2160.
PED 3161 THEORY AND PRACTICE OF COACHING SOCCER (2 credits).
Prepares future soccer coaches with the knowledge, techniques and skills required to
be successful. Emphasizes the development of proper training programs and specific
game strategy. Includes the history of the game of soccer and the development and
implementation of designed plays. Prerequisites: PED 2160.
PHYSICS
PHY 1001 PHYSICS 1 (4 credits). Includes vectors; mechanics of particles;
Newton’s laws of motion; work, energy and power; impulse and momentum; conservation
laws; mechanics of rigid bodies, rotation, equilibrium; fluids, heat and thermodynamics;
and periodic motion. Prerequisites: MTH 1001, MTH 1002. Corequisites:
MTH 1002.
PHY 1050 PHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE SEMINAR (1 credit). Introduces
some of the major contemporary problems and research areas in physics and space
sciences.
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PHY 1091 NANOSCIENCE/NANOTECHNOLOGY LABORATORY
(1 credit). Introduces science/engineering freshmen interested in careers in nanoscience
research/nanotechnology to techniques of nanomaterial fabrication by thin
film deposition and chemical synthesis, and sample characterization techniques
like atomic force and scanning tunneling microscopes. (Requirement: Freshman
status or instructor approval.) Prerequisites: CHM 1101.
PHY 1999 PHYSICAL CONCEPTS FOR CONSTRUCTION (4 credits).
Presents the basic concepts of physics as an essential foundation for understanding
technical ideas such as statics, structures, materials, and electrical and mechanical
systems. Provides a basis in physical science required for field work in the construction
industry. Prerequisites: MTH 1001.
PHY 2002 PHYSICS 2 (4 credits). Includes electricity and magnetism, Coulomb’s
law, electric fields, potential capacitance, resistance, DC circuits, magnetic fields,
fields due to currents, induction, magnetic properties; and wave motion, vibration and
sound, interference and diffraction. Prerequisites: PHY 1001.
PHY 2003 MODERN PHYSICS (3 credits). Includes quantum mechanics of
atoms, molecules, nuclei, solids and fundamental particles. Planck and de Broglie’s
laws, the Bohr model of hydrogen, elementary examples of Schroedinger’s equation,
relativity, elementary particles and symmetry, quantum electrodynamics and chromodynamics.
Prerequisites: MTH 2001 or MTH 2201, PHY 2002.
PHY 2091 PHYSICS LABORATORY 1 (1 credit). Experiments to elucidate
concepts and relationships presented in PHY 1001, to develop understanding of the
inductive approach and the significance of a physical measurement, and to provide
some practice in experimental techniques and methods. Corequisites: PHY 1001 or
PHY 1999.
PHY 2092 PHYSICS LABORATORY 2 (1 credit). Continues PHY 2091. Includes
experiments pertaining to PHY 2002. Prerequisites: PHY 2091. Corequisites: PHY 2002.
PHY 3011 PHYSICAL MECHANICS (4 credits). Fundamental principles of
mechanics and applications in physics. Includes Newton’s Laws, equations of motion,
types of forces, conservation laws, potential functions, Euler and Lagrange equations
and Hamilton’s Principle. Prerequisites: MTH 2001, MTH 2201, PHY 2002.
PHY 3035 QUANTUM MECHANICS (4 credits). Schrodinger equation, the
uncertainty principle, one-dimensional potentials, harmonic oscillator, operator
methods, tunneling, angular momentum and spin. Discusses three-dimensional problems,
such as one-electron atom and N-particle systems. Introduces approximation
techniques, including perturbation theory. Prerequisites: MTH 2201, PHY 2003.
PHY 3060 THERMODYNAMICS, KINETIC THEORY AND
STATISTICAL MECHANICS (4 credits). Includes temperature, heat and heat
engines, work, internal energy, entropy, laws of thermodynamics, thermodynamic
potentials, equations of state, phase changes, viscosity, thermal conductivity, diffusion,
Boltzmann, Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein statistics and partition functions.
Prerequisites: PHY 2003.
PHY 3152 ELECTRONIC MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES (4 credits).
Includes modern electronic measurement and data collection methods, circuit
analysis, integrated and digital circuits, noise reduction techniques, signal conditioning
in experimental physics and computer interfacing. Includes a laboratory
section considering the design, construction and testing of analog and digital circuits.
Prerequisites: PHY 2002.
PHY 3440 ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY (3 credits). Includes geometry of
static electric and magnetic fields, electric charges and currents, calculating electric
and magnetic fields from potentials, static electric and magnetic fields inside matter,
Faraday’s Law of Induction and Maxwell’s Equations, and propagation and radiation of
electromagnetic waves. Prerequisites: MTH 2001, PHY 2002.
PHY 3901 RESEARCH EXPERIENCE IN PHYSICS (1 credit). Individual
research directed by a faculty member. May not be used in place of any named courses
in the major program. Requires the preparation and presentation of a report on the
research. May be repeated for a maximum of four credits. (Requirements: GPA of
3.0 or higher, sophomore or higher standing, and instructor and department head
approval.)
PHY 4020 OPTICS (3 credits). Applications to physics, space sciences and
engineering. Includes geometrical optics (briefly), physical optics including Fraunhofer
and Fresnel diffraction; interactions with dielectric materials; Fresnel equations; and
applications including lasers, holography, polarization and nonlinear optics materials.
(Requirement: Instructor approval or prerequisite course.) Prerequisites: MTH 2201,
PHY 2002.
PHY 4021 EXPERIMENTS IN OPTICS (1 credit). Experiments include basic
optical systems, interference and diffraction. Studies interferometers, spectrometers,
lasers and detectors. Enrollment limited to physics and space sciences majors, and on
a space-available basis to electrical engineering majors with an emphasis in electrooptics.
Corequisites: PHY 4020.