Physics
Course Credits: 15
Course Curriculum Used:
Physics in Your Life
Taught by Richard Wolfson
Middlebury College
Ph.D., Dartmouth College
Joy of Science
Lectures by Robert M. Hazen
George Mason University
Ph.D., Harvard University
Course Description
This course explores the physics of everyday events and is organized into six modules, treating five specific realms of physics and their related applications, plus a sixth area devoted to a potpourri of topics including the workings of the space-based Global Positioning System; rotational motion in phenomena from dance to pulsars; lasers and their many uses; nuclear physics and its multifaceted role in our lives; the mechanics of the human body and how physics enables us to explore the body through medical imaging; and the evolution of the universe from the Big Bang to you.
Physics in Your Life Lecture Titles
- Realms of Physics
- The Amazing Disc
- The Wonderful Wave
- Seeing the Light
- Is Seeing Believing?
- Music to Your Ears
- May the Forces Be With You
- Aristotle’s Revenge
- Going in Circles
- Taking Flight
- Into Space
- A Conservative Streak
- The Electrical Heart of Matter
- Harnessing the Electrical Genie
- A Magnetic Personality
- Making Electricity
- Credit Card to Power Plant
- Making Waves
- The Miracle Element
- The Twentieth Century’s Greatest Invention?
- Building the Electronics Revolution
- Circuits-So Logical!
- How’s Your Memory?
- Atom to Computer
- Keeping Warm
- Life in the Greenhouse
- The Tip of the Iceberg
- Physics in the Kitchen
- Like a Work of Shakespeare
- Energy in Your Life
- Your Place on Earth
- Dance and Spin
- The Light Fantastic
- Nuclear Matters
- Physics in Your Body
- Your Place in the Universe
Joy of Science Lecture Titles
- The Nature of Science
- The Scientific Method
- The Ordered Universe
- Celestial and Terrestrial Mechanics
- Newton’s Laws of Motion
- Universal Gravitation
- The Nature of Energy
- The First Law of Thermodynamics
- The Second Law of Thermodynamics
- Entropy
- Magnetism and Static Electricity
- Electricity
- Electromagnetism
- The Electromagnetic Spectrum, Part I
- The Electromagnetic Spectrum, Part II