How can we understand the complexities of motion? What determines the arc of a basketball free-throw, or how can we model blood pressure in the humans? This course develops concepts of force, momentum and energy and applies them to a variety of phenomena ranging from the motion of elementary particles to the motion of the planets. High school algebra and trigonometry are used. Lab.
PHYS 120: Matter in Motion (no calculus)
Program
Attributes
Appropriate for First-year Students,
Natural Sciences Division