PHYS 111 - Descriptive Introduction to Physics

    Recent Professors
    Kent Schwitkis, Mahbub Khan
    Recent Semesters
    Fall 2026, Summer 2026, Spring 2026, Winter 2026, Fall 2025
    Class Size
    30–36 students
    Difficulty
    5.1Moderateout of 10
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisite
    None
    Fall 2026 Sections
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    Transfers To
    UC and CSUCal-GETC Area 5A · IGETC Area 5A · CSU GE Area B1
    Description
    This course utilizes lectures and demonstrations to present various principles of physics in a non-mathematical manner. Newton's Laws of motion and gravitation, momentum, work, energy, and heat will be presented. Other topics will be selected from properties of matter, fluids, sound, light, electricity and magnetism, atomic and modern physics, special and general relativity.