PHY 141 Mechanics (Honors)

Semester: Fall
Credit Hours: 4
Prerequisite: MTH 141 or 161 (may be taken concurrenlty); prior knowledge of introductory calculus (simple integration and differentiation).

First semester of a three-course honors sequence, recommended for prospective departmental concentrators and other science or engineering students with interest in physics and mathematics and who have had physics in high school. Topics studied are similar to those in PHY 121, but are covered in greater depth. These include symmetries, vectors, coordinate and velocity transformations, motion in one and two dimensions, Newton's Laws, work and energy, conservation of energy and momentum, special relativity, systems of particles, gravity and Kepler's laws, rotations, oscillations, molecular theory and thermodynamics. In addition to Two 75-minute lectures each week, One workshop/recitation each week and One three-hour laboratory every other week is required. The laboratory and recitation registration is at the sametime as the course registration.

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