College Physics I

Catalog description

This lab course is the first of a two-semester college algebra-based sequence designed to meet the needs of life and health science, liberal arts, and pre-professional students. Topics include vector algebra, Newton's laws of motion, description of motion and motion with constant acceleration, projectile motion, circular motion, work and conservation of energy, impulse and linear momentum, torque and angular momentum, fluids, elasticity and oscillations, waves and sound, and thermal physics and thermodynamics.