Surveys the field of physics including laws of motion, properties of matter, heat, sound, electricity and magnetism, light, atomic and nuclear physics, and relativity. There will be given an historic perspective and applications in today’s culture.

Lecture 3 hours.
Credit not given for BOTH Physical Science 1 and Physics 12.

Considers, at the beginning calculus level, the fundamental principles of mechanics, gravitation, thermodynamics, fluids, oscillatory motion, waves, and sound, with applications to biological and biochemical systems.

Lecture 3 hours; Laboratory 6 hours.
Prerequisite: Mathematics 240.
Corequisite: Mathematics 261.

Continues Physics 6 into principles of electricity and magnetism, optics, and modern physics. The laboratory includes both quantitative and qualitative experiments, and active-learning activities which permit students to verify, illustrate, and deduce various laws of physics.

Physics 103 is the third semester of Pierce's calculus-based physics sequence, covering waves, optics, and modern physics. We will be using Moodle for online reading quizzes before each lecture.

This is the second semester of a two-semester course of calculus-based physics adapted for life-science majors. The fundamental principles covered this semester will be in the fields of electricity and magnetism, electromagnetic waves and optics, and modern physics (quantum, atomic, nuclear, and particle physics).