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| Pre-Medical Professional Physics II | |||
| PREMED PHYS II | |||
| CLASS CODE: | PH 116 | CREDITS: 4 | |
| COLLEGE: | PHYSICAL SCIENCE & ENGINEERING | ||
| DEPARTMENT: | PHYSICS | ||
| GENERAL EDUCATION: | This course fulfills a General Education - Physical Science requirement. | ||
| DESCRIPTION: | Second course in a sequence of general physics particularly designed for pre-medical students, but also appropriate for architecture and biology students. It is designed to address the concepts and topics needed to prepare students for the MCAT and entrance into professional schools. The style of MCAT physics questions is addressed directly. This course includes a three hour lab. | ||
| TAUGHT: | Fall, Winter, Spring | ||
| CONTENT AND TOPICS: | The lecture portion of this course covers topics that include electricity and magnetism, optics, relativity, atomic and nuclear physics. These topics are the basis for most of our current technologies, particularly in the medical field. The three-hour lab portion of this course includes measurements, developing empirical equations and specific experiences that support understanding of many of the topics and principles covered in the lecture portion. Lab reports will constitute a major part of the writing component of the course. |
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| GOALS AND OBJECTIVES: | 1.Experience and understand basic physical fundamentals and the key vocabulary to describe it; electricity and magnetism, optics, atomic and nuclear physics. 2.Develop skills in observation, interpretation, reasoning, synthesis, generalizing, predicting, and questioning as a way to learn new knowledge. 3.Develop scientific problem solving skills, including organize given information, identify and apply pertinent principles, apply math to solution, interpret results, evaluate validity of results. 4.Develop interpersonal and communication skills including communicating in small groups, writing, and working effectively with peers. 5.Apply understanding of the physical process to general real-world situations, including the physical function of anatomical parts and physical mechanisms of disease or injury. |
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| REQUIREMENTS: | Group and classroom discussions, laboratory activities, quizzes, homework, exams, laboratory reports and worksheets. | ||
| PREREQUISITES: | PH 115 | ||
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| EFFECTIVE DATE: | August 2008 | ||