PHYS 1175 — Physics 2 for Bioscience and Bioengineering

3 semester hoursUndergraduateLectureNUpath NDusually offered: falltypical days: M/WBostonTraditional

Continues PHYS 1171. Includes topics such as wave motion and hearing; electric fields (including application to biological membranes); direct current electrical circuits (including biological circuits); RC circuit models of ion channels; bioelectricity in marine organisms; electromagnetic waves and optics; modern physics (including radioactive decay, applications of radioactivity in nuclear medicine, and carbon 14 dating).

Prerequisites

all of:
- one of:
  - PHYS 1151 (min D-)
  - PHYS 261M
  - PHYS 1161 (min D-)
  - PHYS 1171 (min D-)
- one of:
  - MATH 1242 (min D-) (may be taken concurrently)
  - MATH 1342 (min D-) (may be taken concurrently)
  - MATH 211M
  - MATH 2321 (min D-) (may be taken concurrently)
  - MATH 316M

Offering history

Term	Sections	Enrolled	Capacity	Full	Open seats/section
Fall 2023	1	40	68	59%	28.0
Fall 2024	1	38	48	79%	10.0
Fall 2025	1	34	50	68%	16.0

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 100% · T 0% · W 66% · Th 30% · F 0%

Common patterns: MW (36% of sections), M (34% of sections), MWR (30% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday

Professors

Fall

Enrique Moreno (100% of students) · reviews

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

Unlocks

BIOE 2355, BIOE 3210, CHEM 3431, EECE 2150, EECE 2530, EECE 2531, PHYS 1211, PHYS 2303, PHYS 2371, PHYS 3601, PHYS 3602, PHYS 4305

Courses that list PHYS 1175 in their prerequisites.

Links

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