3-3-0

This course is designed to emphasize topics of particular relevance to the life sciences. Topics that will be covered include: vibrations and waves; sound: electrostatics (charges, electric fields and potential); circuits; magnetism (forces, induction, electromagnetic waves); optics (interference, diffration, instruments); and modern physics (atoms, radioactivity, MRI, CAT).

Prerequisite: Physics 191a or Physics 193a or the permission of the instructor.
Corerequisite: Mathematics 192b or Mathematics 199b.


This course should be taken concurrently with Physics 084. This course is for students who lack collegial Physics NYB. Students who have received credit for an equivalent course taken elsewhere may not register for this course. Credit will be given for only one of Physics 192b, 194b, and 199f.