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PHYSICS 10 - Introduction to Physics: This course is intended for students who might have wondered what keeps the Earth spinning (or something similar!), but haven't (yet) become exposed to the absolute joy of finding things out. If you like to watch the Discovery channel, or if you wonder why something happened the way it did, then this course is perfect for you! We won't be doing much math (though you should have had MATH 154), but instead we'll be discussing the wonders of physics. What is physics? It is simply observing the world around us and trying to model why things are the way they are. We'll discuss things like: why stuff moves (or doesn't move), chaotic behavior, satellites, explosions, atoms, radioactivity, electricity & magnetism, global warming, light waves, invisible light, nuclear gadgets and quantum physics. We will also focus specifically on physics in the news and what physics buzz-words are floating around.
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PHYSICS 4A - Physics for Scientists & Engineers I - This is the first course in the calculus-based series of introductory undergraduate physics. We will focus exclusively on motion - with the restrictions that the motion not be too fast, and the object not be too small. This is known as the classical region, or "Newtonian" mechanics.
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