Oct 31, 2024  
College Catalog 2024-2025 
    
College Catalog 2024-2025

PHYS 226 - Principles of Physics I


A study of motion, including Newton’s Law of Motion, conservation of energy and momentum, rotational kinematics and dynamics, oscillations, waves in elastic media and thermal properties of matter. Three lectures and one two-hour laboratory per week. Students cannot receive credit for both this course and PHYS 221 . Prerequisite(s): Concurrent or previous registration in MATH 135  or  ; or a 4 or 5 on the Advanced Placement AB or BC Calculus exam. Fall semester. (4 Credits)