PHY 004A - Engineering Physics-Mechanics

    Recent Professors
    Shruti Kumar, Gianni Giordanengo, John Beck, Nathan Lewis
    Recent Semesters
    Fall 2026, Spring 2026, Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024
    Class Size
    32 students
    Credits
    5
    Prerequisite
    MAT 003A or MAT 003AH
    Fall 2026 Sections
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    Transfers To
    UC and CSUCal-GETC Area 5A · Cal-GETC Area 5C · IGETC Area 5C · IGETC Area 5A · CSU GE Area B3 · CSU GE Area B1
    Description
    This course in mechanics, the first in a series of engineering physics courses, is a calculus-based study of forces, energy and momentum. Kinematic problems are solved using position, velocity and acceleration. Conservation of momentum and energy is applied to moving and interacting systems, rotational mechanics, simple harmonic motion, gravity, mechanical properties of matter, fluid statics and dynamics.
    Usually Held
    Mon 9:20am–12:30pm, Tue 9:20am–12:30pm, Wed 10:20am–1:30pm, Wed 9:20am–10:10am