is a non-calculus based introduction to mechanics.

Prerequisite: Level III Advanced Mathematics or Mathematics 1090. Mathematics 1090 may be taken concurrently. It is recommended that students have completed at least one of level II and level III high school physics courses, however this course may be completed by someone who has no physics background provided some extra effort is made.

Lectures: Three hours per week.

Laboratory and/or Tutorial: Up to three hours per week.

is a non-calculus based introduction to fluids, wave motion, light, optics, electricity and magnetism.

Prerequisites: Physics 1020 or 1050 and Mathematics 1000. Mathematics 1000 may be taken concurrently.

Lectures: Three hours per week.

Laboratories: Normally six three-hour sessions per semester.

Tutorials: Optional tutorials will be available, on average one hour per week.

is a calculus based introduction to mechanics. The course will emphasize problem solving.

Prerequisite: Mathematics 1000, which may be taken concurrently.

Lectures: Three hours per week.

Laboratories: Normally six three-hour sessions per semester.

Tutorials: Optional tutorials will be available, on average one hour per week.

is a calculus based introduction to oscillations, wave motion, physical optics and electromagnetism.

Prerequisites: Physics 1050 or 1020 (with a minimum grade of 65%) and Mathematics 1001. Mathematics 1001 may be taken concurrently.

Lectures: Three hours per week.

Laboratories: Three hours per week.

is special relativity, quanta of light, atomic structure and spectral lines, quantum structure of atoms and molecules, nuclei and elementary particles.

Prerequisites: Mathematics 1001, Physics 1050 (or 1020 and 1021), and Physics 1054. Mathematics 1001 and Physics 1051 may be taken concurrently.

Lectures: Three hours per week.

Laboratory: Three hours per week.

is laboratory techniques, including experimental method and design. Data analysis, including application of statistics to experimental physics. Numerical analysis using Maple, and an introduction to modeling in physics. Topics are introduced through experiments, complementary lectures, and library research of some of the great experiments of physics.

Lectures and laboratories: Six hours per week.

Prerequisites/Co-requisites: Physics 1061 (or 2054), Mathematics 1001, and Mathematics 2050 which may be taken concurrently.

is atomic structure and spectra. The sun: radiation, energetics, magnetic field. Stars: distance, velocity, size, atmospheres, interiors. Variable stars, multiple stars, clusters and stellar associations. Stellar evolution, interstellar matter, structure of the Milky Way Galaxy. Exterior galaxies, quasi-stellar objects, pulsars. Cosmology.

Prerequisites: Six credit hours in Mathematics at the first year level.

Lectures: Three hours per week.

is point charges; Coulomb's law; electrostatic field and potential; Gauss' law; conductors; magnetostatics; Ampere's law; Biot-Savart law; dielectric and magnetic materials; electrostatic and magnetostatic energy; Lorentz force; time varying fields; Faraday's law; Lenz's law; Maxwell's equations.

Lectures: Three hours per week.

Laboratories: Normally three hours per week.

Prerequisites/Co-requisites: Physics 1051 and Applied Mathematics 3260. Applied Mathematics 3260 may be taken concurrently.

is the physics and mathematics of stars and galaxies. Orbits and the two-body problem, radiation and matter, theory of stellar atmospheres, structure and evolution of stars. Galaxies: Morphology and kinematics. Milky Way kinematics and structure, large-scale star formation, the distribution of interstellar matter in galaxies. Starburst and active galaxies. An introduction to cosmology.

Lectures: three hours per week.

Credit restrictions: Physics 3150, 3151.

Prerequisites/Co-requisites: Physics 2056, 2151 and Mathematics 2000. Physics 3220 is recommended.

is kinematics and dynamics of a particle. Moving reference systems. Celestial mechanics. Systems of particles.

Prerequisites: Physics 2820 and Applied Mathematics/Pure Mathematics 3260. 3260 may be taken concurrently.

Lectures: Three hours per week.