For Fall 2010 I am teaching
two classes at CCAC: Basic Physics PHY-100
BIN1 and BIN2. Classes start Sept. 7, 2010.
Questions or comments? Please contact Dr. Marco Plumley
Basic Physics
PHY-100 - (BIN1 and BIN2) - Basic Physics (4 credits)
PREREQUISITES: MAT090
A
course for students with little or no high school preparation in
physics. Students in programs that require college-level physics should
take this course first if they have no previous physics courses. Topics
include methods of measurement, problem-solving techniques, and the
physical concepts of motion, forces, work and energy, electricity,
waves, and optics. Students must enroll for both the lecture and
laboratory components of this course. These components may be combined
at some campuses.
Comments:
The
course is entirely online. Homework is not collected but there is
a weekly online quiz that follows the homework. Each lesson
generally has a quiz and a laboratory. The labs are presented as
virtual equipment similar to those in a real laboratory. There is
no separate lab manual.
Problems
are mostly one-step algebra. Some problems involve trigonometry;
however, the trigonometry information is given, so no knowledge of trig
is necessary.
There are four exams including the final, which is not comprehensive.
The textbook used in the course is
"Applied Physics" by Dale Ewen, Neill Schurter, and P. Erik Gundersen
(Ninth Edition)
ISBN-13 978-0-13-515733-6
ISBN-10 0-13-515733-1
Copyright 2009
Pearson Education, Inc.,
Upper Saddle River, New Jersey
Introduction to Astronomy
PHS-107-AC60 - Introductory Astronomy (3 credits)
PREREQUISITES:
None
A
descriptive introduction to astronomy. Topics include the astronomies
of the ancients, the planets, the sun, stars, exotic stellar objects
(x-rays, pulsars and black holes among others), the origin and content
of the universe, and the possibilities of extraterrestrial life.
Comments:
This
is a classroom course at the CCAC Allegheny campus. Classroom
instruction will make heavy use of the planetarium software Starry Night.
The textbook used in the course is
"Explorations an Introduction to Astronomy" by Thomas T. Arny (Fourth Edition).
Book website: http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072509856/information_center_view0
ISBN 0-07-250985-6
Copyright 2006
McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020
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