General Physics

G.P.Gilfoyle, Instructor

Image of Saturn and its rings taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft after it slipped into Saturn's shadow and turned back to image the planet with the Sun's rays blocked by the planet itself. In this course we will study why the rings are close to Saturn while the planet's many moons are farther away.


General Physics I-II (Physics 131-132) is a year-long sequence that introduces the student to most of the major topics in physics including mechanics, statistical mechanics and thermodynamics, electromagnetism, radioactivity, and light.




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