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PHYS 1001: General Physics I
Fall 2004

Instructor: Dr. Kelsey Jordahl
Lecture: Thursday 5:25pm-8:00pm (NAB 103)
Lab: Thursday 8:10pm-10:45pm (S-1)
Final Exam: December 16 5:25pm
Text: Jones & Childers, Contemporary College Physics, Third Edition, McGraw Hill, 2001 Update.

Overview: This course is for students in the biological sciences and premedical curricula and for nonscience majors desiring two semesters of physics. Contemporary topics such as relativity, nuclear, atomic and molecular structure follow classical topics such as mechanics, waves, heat, electricity, magnetism and light. The treatment is generally quantitative but without calculus.

Homework assignments

Fall semester lecture notes are no longer available online. Please contact me for these files.

Links:
Newton public exhibit at New York Public Library
Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn and Titan
Parkfield Earthquake
Zero-g cat movie (Quicktime required)
Six Easy Pieces by Richard Feynman
List of basic physics equations

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