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scientific questions. Students learn content by completing real-world projects and applications. PH355a/PH355b Physics with Advanced Topics Two trimesters Credit: Two units core physics credit. Meeting pattern: Five periods per week including lab. Corequisite: MA305 Precalculus and Modeling. This course provides a precalculus-based foundation in the principles of general physics. The first term covers the laws of motion, force, momentum, and energy. In the second term students investigate the laws of electricity and magnetism, wave motion, and simple harmonic motion. The laboratory experience emphasizes the use of the computer in both the collection and the analysis of laboratory data. Activities in this course are designed to encourage the development of the following skills: excellence in qualitative and quantitative problem solving, independent learning from the course textbooks, careful and thoughful experimental habits in lab, and proficiency in writing lab reports. NOTE: Due to significant overlap in content, qualified students may take PH355 Physics with Advanced Topics OR NCSSM Online PH424 Physics Advanced/PH426 AP Physics B, but not both. PH402 Modern Physics One trimester Credit: One unit core elective credit. Prerequisite: Final grade of A- or higher in PH307 Physics or final grade of B+ or higher in PH355 Physics with Advanced Topicsor exemption from NCSSM core physics requirement, and permission of the Dean of Science. MA305 Precalculus and Modeling or MA355 Precalculus and Modeling with Advanced Topics. Meeting pattern: Five periods per week including lab. This course continues the PH307 or PH355courses by surveying the physics developed since the start of the twentieth century. Topics are selected from special and general relativity, atomic and nuclear structure, particle-wave duality, quantum mechanics, elementary particles, and grand unified theories. PH404 AP Physics C: Mechanics (I) One trimester Credit: One unit core physics or core elective credit. Prerequisite: Final grade of A- or higher in PH307 Physics or final grade of B+ or higher in PH355 Physics with Advanced Topics or exemption from NCSSM core physics requirement, and permission of the Dean of Science Corequisite: MA420 AP Calculus BC (Advanced Topics I). 76
Meeting pattern: Four periods per week including lab. This course provides a thorough treatment of classical mechanics up to, but not including, angular momentum. Calculus is used where needed and is treated at a level appropriate to students who are taking MA420 or higher-level calculus course. An excellent grasp of the fundamental concepts taught in introductory physics is assumed. There is a strong problem-solving emphasis and the course includes a lab component. Students who have taken PH307 will find it necessary to study some additional topics not taught in those courses. This course may be used to prepare for the Mechanics portion of the AP C Physics examination, but its breadth and depth are significantly higher than that of a typical AP C Physics course. PH406 AP Physics C: Mechanics (II)/Electricity and Magnetism (I) One trimester Credit: One unit core physics or core elective credit. Prerequisite: Final grade of B or higher in PH404 AP Physics C: Mechanics (I), and permission of the Dean of Science. Corequisite: MA422 AP Calculus BC (Advanced Topics II). Meeting pattern: Four periods per week including lab. This course provides the completion of classical mechanics (in particular, the study of angular momentum and of gravitational fields) and an introduction to electronic forces and fields, Gauss’ law, capacitance, and voltage. Calculus is used where needed and is treated at a level appropriate to students who are taking MA422 AP Calculus BC (Advanced Topics II). Completion of PH404 and this course may be used to prepare for the Mechanics portion of the AP C Physics examination, but its breadth and depth are significantly higher than that of a typical AP C Physics course. PH408 AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism (II) One trimester Credit: One unit core physics or core elective credit. Prerequisite: Final grade of B or higher in PH406 AP Physics C: Mechanics (II)/Electricity and Magnetism (I), MA422 AP Calculus BC (III) and permission of the Dean of Science. Meeting pattern: Four periods per week including lab. This course continues the study of electromagnetism. Topics include electric circuits (R, RC, and RL), magnetism, Ampere’s law, induction, and the Faraday/Lenz law. Emphasis is on the completion of the AP C Physics curriculum. Topics in geometrical and physical optics are offered after the completion of the AP syllabus. There is a strong problem-solving emphasis and the course includes a lab component. Calculus is used where needed and is 77
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