PHYS 1161 — Physics 1

4 semester hoursUndergraduateLectureNUpath NDusually offered: falltypical days: M/W/ThBostonTraditional

Covers calculus-based physics. Offers the first semester of a two-semester integrated lecture and laboratory sequence intended primarily for science students. Covers Newtonian mechanics and fluids. Emphasizes the underlying concepts and principles. Takes applications from a wide variety of fields, such as life sciences and medicine, astro- and planetary physics, and so on. Includes topics such as forces, torque and static equilibrium, one-dimensional and three-dimensional motion, Newton’s laws, dynamics friction, drag, work, energy and power, momentum and collisions, rotational dynamics, oscillations, pressure, fluids, and gravity.

Prerequisites

• one of:
  • MATH 1241 (min D-)
  • MATH 1251 (min D-)
  • MATH 1341 (min D-) (may be taken concurrently)
  • MATH 21EM
  • MATH 1342 (min D-) (may be taken concurrently)
  • MATH 211M
  • MATH 2321 (min D-) (may be taken concurrently)
  • MATH 316M

Corequisites (same term)

• all of:
  • PHYS 1162
  • PHYS 1163

Offering history

Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.

Meeting times

Share of recent sections by weekday: M 71% · T 29% · W 71% · Th 71% · F 0%

Common patterns: MWR (71% of sections), T (29% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday

Professors

Fall

• Toyoko Orimoto (37% of students) · reviews
• Camille Gomez-Laberge (35% of students) · reviews
• Louise Skinnari (29% of students) · reviews

Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.

Unlocks

BIOE 2350, CHEM 3401, CIVE 2221, CIVE 2260, CIVE 5369, GE 3300, ME 2350, ME 2380, ME 3465, PHSC 3411, PHYS 1147, PHYS 1155, PHYS 1165, PHYS 1175

Courses that list PHYS 1161 in their prerequisites.

Links

Official catalog (PHYS course descriptions) · Student reviews on RateMyHusky · All PHYS courses · Plan it at numap.app