This course is the third in the three-course sequence of introductory physics taught with the presumption that the student has had high school level algebra and trigonometry, but without the presumption that the student knows calculus. The topics include:

• electromagnetic waves
• reflection and refraction of light
• optics of mirrors and lenses
• optics of waves
• relativity
• quantum physics
• atomic physics
• nuclear physics
• nuclear energy and elementary particles

The course does not presume that you have already encountered these concepts.

Syllabus

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Announcements

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Laboratory

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LON-CAPA

On-line problem assignments.

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