PHYS C285 - Calculus Based Physics: Modern Physics
- Recent Professors
- David Devine
- Recent Semesters
- Spring 2026
- Class Size
- 30 students
- Credits
- 4
- Prerequisite
- MATH C185 and PHYS C185 .
- Spring 2026 Sections
- View Spring 2026 sections of PHYS C285
- Transfers To
- UC and CSUCal-GETC Area 5A · Cal-GETC Area 5C · IGETC Area 5A · IGETC Area 5C · CSU GE Area B3 · CSU GE Area B1
- Description
- This course covers thermodynamics, light, optics, and modern physics. Topics include heat transfer and the kinetic theory of gases, geometric optics, wave optics, an introduction to relativity, an introduction to quantum mechanics and quantum theory, and the structure of matter. C-ID: PHYS 215.