PHYS 281 - Physics for Scientists and Engineers I

Credits: 4
When Offered: As needed
Prerequisite(s): MATH 151 and CPTR 105 with at least a grade of “C.”

Corequisite(s): MATH 252 maintaining at least “C” standing.
This course is designed for those students who have had physics at the secondary level and assumes a working knowledge of calculus. Topics include vectors, mechanics of systems of particles, energy, harmonic motion, electro/magneto dynamics and modern physics. Three lectures and one three-hour laboratory per week.

Note: First semester of a two-semester sequence. This course is a prerequisite to that of the second semester course. Credit may be received for the work of this course without the completion of the second.