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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

PHYS 207 - General Physics for the Life Sciences III


Prerequisites, MATH 111  or MATH 115  and PHYS 101  or PHYS 107 . Students continue exploring the principles of physics and their applications to microscopic and macroscopic phenomena with emphasis on its application to understanding living systems and its use in standard diagnostic tools in the life sciences. Students develop broadly applicable critical thinking, approximation, and problem-solving skills. Topics include waves, sound, thermodynamics, kinetic theory of gases, relativity, atomic and nuclear physics. Letter grade with Pass/No Pass option. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits