2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Jul 01, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

PHYS 1150 - Mechanics, Heat, and Waves with Laboratory


Co-requisite: PHYS 1151 . Prerequisite or co-requisite: MATH 1117 . A first semester, calculus-based physics course for physical science and engineering majors. Fundamentals of mechanics and thermal physics. Vectors, kinematics, Newton's laws, conservation principles for energy, momentum, and angular momentum, linear, rotational, and harmonic motion, superposition principle, gravitation, fluids, mechanical waves, sound, heat, ideal gases, laws of thermodynamics. Laboratory fee. 4 credits.