Honors-Concepts in Physics

Catalog description

This course examines the classical foundations of physics and modern twentieth-century physics. Topics included in the classical foundation are description of motion, free fall, force, weight, and mass; Newton's laws of motion and law of gravitation; momentum; work and energy; the atomic nature of matter; temperature, heat, and energy; and electricity and magnetism. Topics in twentieth-century physics include electronics, wave properties and particle properties of light, photons and the photoelectric effect, the nucleus and Bohr's treatment of the hydrogen atom, the wave nature of matter, X-rays, radioactivity, nuclear structure, and nuclear transformations. This course may not be taken with the Pass/Fail option.