PH 202 General Physics
Lecture Hours: 4
Credits: 4
Covers the second term of a three-term sequence of introductory algebra-based college physics. Includes fluids, oscillations, waves, thermodynamics, and electricity.
Prerequisite: Placement into WR 115 (or higher), or completion of WR 090 (or higher); and completion of PH 201 , or PH 211 ; concurrent enrollment in PH 215 or completion of course; or consent of instructor. (All prerequisite courses must be completed with a grade of C or better.).
Student Learning Outcomes:
- Apply mathematical and physical principles to specific problems based on identified physics topics.
- Explain relevance of physical principles to problem-solving.
General Education Outcomes:
- Gather, comprehend, and communicate scientific and technical information in order to explore ideas, models, and solutions and generate further questions.
- Apply scientific and technical modes of inquiry, individually, and collaboratively, to critically evaluate existing or alternative explanations, solve problems, and make evidence-based decisions in an ethical manner.
- Assess the strengths and weaknesses of scientific studies and critically examine the influence of scientific and technical knowledge on human society and the environment.
Content Outline
Required textbook for college credit: College Physics; Knight, Jones, and Field; Pearson Addison Wesley ISBN: 1st edition (preferred) 080530634X or 0805390626; 2nd edition 0321595491, 0321815408, or 0321815114; or 3rd edition 0321879724 or 0321902556
- Science
- Laboratory ethics
- Error estimation and propagation
- Hypothesis testing
- Scientific writing
- Fluids
- Static fluids
- Dynamic fluids
- Oscillations and Waves
- Simple harmonic motion
- Transverse and longitudinal waves
- Sound waves
- Thermodynamics
- Temperature and heat
- The laws of thermodynamics
- Calorimetry
- Heat engines and refrigerators
- Electricity
- Electric forces
- Electric fields
- Electric potential
- Electric potential energy
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