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2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

PHY 2212 - Physics II

Credits: 4
Second semester of a one-year calculus-based introduction to physics, for students in engineering, chemistry, biology, physics, and others. Topics normally include electric charge, electric fields and forces, electric potential and potential energy, fields and potentials produced by continuous charge distributions, DC circuit analysis, magnetic fields and forces, Faraday’s law, motors and generators, waves, geometric optics, and (instructor option) special relativity. 
Prerequisite(s): PHY 2211  
Corequisite(s): PHY2002L (concurrent enrollment)
Fulfills: Mathematics/Science distribution requirement. Q and a STEM requirement in LS Core.
Four and a half to five hours of integrated lecture, discussion, and group problem-solving a week.