PHYS 140
How Things Work

Credit:  3 hours.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for a
Physical Sciences, and Quant Reasoning II course.

Nonmathematical lecture-demonstration course for nonscience students, underscoring the generality and ubiquity of basic physical laws in understanding commonplace phenomena: musical instruments, photography, electric and electronic circuits, television, motors, engines, etc. Credit is not given to engineering majors.