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Aug 31, 2024
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PSC 1011 - Physical World Designed for nonscience majors. Fundamental ideas of measurement, motion, energy, electricity and magnetism, heat, atomic and nuclear physics. Introduction to relativity and quantum phenomena.
Requisites: WARNING: not PSC 1010 Credit Hours: 4 OHIO BRICKS Arch: Natural World General Education Code (students who entered prior to Fall 2021-22): 2NS Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture, 2.0 laboratory Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I College Credit Plus: Level 1 Learning Outcomes: - Students will be able to explain basics terminology, concepts and methods of physics.
- Students will be able to develop and communicate a broad knowledge of the physical principles that describe and contribute to the world around us.
- Students will be able to show how basic mathematics can be used to model physical processes and provide quantitative predictions.
- Students will be able to evaluate a wide range of physical situations and apply the appropriate physics concepts to explain the situation or make predictions.
- Students will be able to critically identify pertinent and extraneous information when analyzing a physical situation.
- Students will be able to apply scientific methods of inquiry to gather and analyze data, draw evidence-based conclusions, and present data in graphical and tabular form with proper annotation.
- Students will be able to state in a logical fashion how experimental data supports scientific arguments and draw appropriate conclusions that recognize related outcomes.
- Students will be able to state scientific hypotheses, explain how hypotheses and theories are established and tested, and describe the historical context of their development.
- Students will be able to use basic scientific language and processes and be able to distinguish between scientific and non-scientific explanations of physical phenomena.
- Students will be able to read graphs and charts to extract needed information.
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