PHYS 6 - The Ideas of Physics Laboratory

    Recent Professors
    A. Villalobos, J. Martinez, T. Smith
    Recent Semesters
    Spring 2027, Fall 2026, Summer 2026
    Class Size
    5–24 students
    Difficulty
    7.0Demandingout of 10
    Credits
    1
    Spring 2027 Sections
    View Spring 2027 sections of PHYS 6
    Transfers To
    UC and CSUCal-GETC Area 5C · IGETC Area 5A · IGETC Area 5C · CSU GE Area B3
    Description
    Introduction to physics for students requiring a general education science lab course and for students majoring in engineering technology and life sciences. Experiments with some of the lecture concepts may include: measurement, free fall, vector addition and components, springs, centripetal force, kinetic energy, gravitational potential energy, conservation of momentum, and Archimedes’ principle.