Mechanics (Self-Paced)

4.0 credits

PHYS 121P is not an online course. Students have extensive in person instruction in weekly workshops and immediate grading and feedback on quizzes. Students are encouraged to attend the regular PHY121 lectures, and the lectures video-taped and accessed through blackboard for students who have a scheduling conflict. The course will make extensive use of geometry, algebra and trigonometry and simple integration and differentiation. Prior knowledge of introductory calculus (simple integration and differentiation) is required. First semester of a three-course sequence for students planning to major in physics, other physical sciences, and engineering. Motion in one and two dimensions; Newton's laws; work and energy; conservation of energy; systems of particles; rotations; oscillations; gravity; thermodynamics. Laboratory registration is done at the same time as the course registration. Students should register for the PHYS 081 lab.