Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.--Winston Churchill
Mechanics and Heat
PHYS 2425
Prerequisites: MATH 2413 or equivalent or departmental approval,
and at least one year of high school physics
Credit: 4
3 hrs. lec.; 3 hrs. lab
This course includes the study of measurement, vector algebra, one- and two-dimensional motion,
Newton's laws of motion, kinematics, momentum and collisions, rotational motion
and angular momentum, elasticity, oscillations and gravitational interactions,
fluids, waves, temperature and the laws of thermodynamics. The course also
includes an appropriate laboratory program illustrating the principles learned
in lecture. This course is primarily for physical science and engineering
majors.