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PHYS 142 - General Physics II

Credit Hours: 4
Frequency of Offering: Offered annually in the spring semester

Waves, optics, quantum mechanics and relativity. Topics include transverse/longitudinal waves, interference, wave/particle duality, the Bohr atom, the Schrodinger equation, time dilation/length contraction, and relativistic energy/momentum. Lecture and laboratory. Recommended for chemistry, biochemistry and biology majors.

Course Satisfies: Core Exploration requirement in the Natural Sciences with Laboratory. Lecture and laboratory.
Prerequisite(s): PHYS 141  or PHYS 151 .
Co-requisite(s): MATH 152  and PHYS 142L.


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