Physics of Everyday Life

Catalog description

The goal of this course is to expose students with a non-science background to physics. The students will experience the excitement of physics by examining phenomena of our everyday environment. The historical development of such ideas will be studied as well. Topics selected for study include mechanics, matter, heat, sound, light, electricity, magnetism, atomic and nuclear physics. Physics will be communicated in a conceptual framework along with straightforward algebraic and trigonometric formulations.