2013–2014 UNIVERSITY CATALOG - Florida Institute of Technology

ORP 6095 PREPARATION FOR CANDIDACY/OPERATIONS RESEARCH
(1-6 credits). Research under the guidance of a member of the operations
research faculty in a selected area of operations research. Repeatable as required.
(Requirement: Program chair approval.)
ORP 6899 FINAL SEMESTER DISSERTATION (0-2 credits). Variable registration
for dissertation completion after satisfaction of minimum registration requirements.
(Requirements: Accepted candidacy and approval by Office of Graduate Programs.)
ORP 6999 DISSERTATION RESEARCH (3-12 credits). Research and preparation
for the doctoral dissertation. (Requirement: Admission to doctoral candidacy.)
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
PED 1020 INTRODUCTION TO SAILING (1 credit). Introduces sailing small
boats, and acquaints beginners with boat and sail forms and racing.
PED 1021 ADVANCED SAILING (1 credit). Examines advanced techniques of
racing, spinnaker setting and seamanship. Prerequisites: PED 1020.
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.)
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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.
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, PHY 2002.
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.