PHY 1050 - How Things Work

4.00 credits.

Natural World Core CourseThis course will introduce students to several concepts in physics which are related to commonly-used technology and modern life. Topics covered will be: motion (skating, projectiles, wheels, bumper cars), mechanics (scales, baseball, amusement parks, bicycle), resonance (musical instruments), optics (camera, telescope), and modern physics (relativity of simultaneity and quantum non-locality).