2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

PHYC 120 General Physics 1

First course in calculus-based physics for students in pre-engineering, the physical sciences, or mathematics. Topics include Newtonian mechanics, work and energy, motion, impulse and momentum, elasticity and wave motion, sound, and hydrostatics and hydrodynamics.  

Prerequisite or parallel: MATH 165.

Not open to students who have credit in PHYC 140.

Credits

5

Core Transfer Library (CTL) Category

Life and Physical/Natural Sciences

Core Transfer Library (CTL) Name

Physics 1 & 2 (two course sequence), Calculus-Based