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DEGREES,CERTIFICATES,COURSES162DEGREES, CERTIFICATES, COURSESCOURSE DESCRIPTIONSPHYSICAL SCIENCEPHYSC 111 (IAI: P9 900L)PHYSICAL SCIENCEPrerequisite: Placement into ENG 099 or higher3 lectures, 2 lab hrs per week: 4 hrs creditThis course is a general education sequence in the physical scienceswhich covers the topics of astronomy and geology.Physical and chemical principles are used to show how thesesciences have evolved.The course is conceptual in nature sothat students can relate the principles to everyday experiences.PHYSC 112 (IAI: P1 905L)EARTH SCIENCEPrerequisite: Placement into ENG 099 or higher3 lectures, 2 lab hrs per week: 4 hrs creditThis is a general education course offered in the PhysicalScience division which covers meteorology, climatology andenvironmental problems. Physical and chemical principles areused to explain meteorological phenomena, climates and climaticchange, the causes of environmental problems and some possiblesolutions to these problems.The course is conceptual innature so that students can relate the principles to everydayexperiences.APPLIED PHYSICSAPHYS 100APPLIED PHYSICSPrerequisite: AMATH 100 or MATH 0902 lectures per week: 2 hrs creditThis course surveys the physical principles of mechanics and isintended for students in apprentice certificate programs.Topicsinclude metric system measurements, motion, Newton’s laws,forces and equilibrium, simple machine elements, conservationlaws, rotational motion, matter, and heat.PHYSICSPHYSI 101 (IAI: P1 901L)(was PHYSI 110)CONCEPTUAL PHYSICSPrerequisite: Placement into ENG 099 or higher3 lectures, 2 lab hrs per week: 4 hrs creditThis course provides a non-mathematical introduction to thebasic concepts of physics.This lab course is designed for thosewith little or no knowledge of physics.Topics include motion,energy, fluids, sound, heat, light, electricity and magnetism, andan overview of concepts like relativity.PHYSI 120 (IAI: P1 900L)COLLEGE PHYSICS IPrerequisite: MATH 151 or equivalent3 lectures, 2 lab hrs per week: 4 hrs creditThis introductory course in a two-semester, algebra-basedsequence is designed to meet the needs of liberal arts, life andhealth science, and pre-professional students.Topics includekinematics, Newton’s laws of motion, conservation laws, rotationalmotion, wave phenomena, fluids and heat. Students maynot receive credit for both PHYSI 120 and 210.2006-2008 CATALOGPHYSI 130COLLEGE PHYSICS IIPrerequisite: PHYSI 120 or equivalent3 lectures, 2 lab hrs per week: 4 hrs creditThis continuation of PHYSI 120 is designed to meet the needsof liberal arts, life and health science, and pre-professional students.Topicsinclude light, optics, electricity, magnetism andmodern physics.PHYSI 210 (IAI: P2 900L; BIO 903; EGR 911; MTH 921)UNIVERSITY PHYSICS IPrerequisite: MATH 171 and high school physics3 lectures, 3 lab hrs per week: 4 hrs creditThis calculus-based course for physical science, pre-engineeringand mathematics majors introduces the major topics ofmechanics.Topics include kinematics, dynamics, momentum,energy, gravitation, harmonic motion and fluids. Microcomputersare used for data gathering and simulation. Students cannotreceive credit for both PHYSI 120 and 210.PHYSI 220 (IAI: BIO 904; EGR 912)UNIVERSITY PHYSICS IIPrerequisite: MATH 1713 lectures, 3 lab hrs per week: 4 hrs creditThis is the second course in the introductory sequence forphysical science, pre-engineering and mathematics majors.Topicscovered include heat, thermodynamics, electric and magneticfields, law of electricity and magnetism, DC and AC circuits, andelectromagnetism.PHYSI 230 (IAI: EGR 914)UNIVERSITY PHYSICS IIIPrerequisite: MATH 1713 lectures, 3 lab hrs per week: 4 hrs creditThird course in a three-semester sequence for physical science,pre-engineering and mathematics majors.Topics include propertiesand equations of waves, sound optics and modern physics.PHYSI 235 (IAI: EGR 942)STATICSPrerequisite: PHYSI 210 (or equivalent) or concurrent enrollment3 lectures per week: 3 hrs creditThis is a first course for engineering students in the mechanicsof rigid bodies. It deals with objects at rest and topics includevector operations, particle statics, rigid body equilibrium, distributedfocus and centroids, analysis of structures, moments ofinertia, virtual work and friction.PHYSI 240 (IAI: EGR 943)DYNAMICSPrerequisite: PHYSI 2353 lectures per week: 3 hrs creditThis is a second course for engineering students in the mechanicsof rigid bodies. It deals with the accelerated motion of abody. Topics include particle kinematics, work, energy andmomentum as well as rigid body planar kinematics, kinetics,work, energy, momentum and vibration.