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PHYS 206 - University Physics II


4 Credits
Four lecture hours.

This is the second semester of a two-semester sequence. This is a calculus-based course designed for students of the natural sciences and engineering. This course emphasizes electricity, magnetism, optics. Topics include Coulomb’s law, Gauss’s law, electric fields and electric potential, currents, simple circuits and Kirchhoff’s laws, generation of magnetic fields by charges in motion, electromagnetic induction, magnetic materials, oscillatory circuits, and elementary optics. You cannot registrar for PHYS 206 without also registering for PHYS 206L . You will not be allowed to register for PHYS 206 unless you have passed PHYS 205  and PHYS 205L  with a grade of “C” or better.

Prerequisite(s) PHYS 205  and PHYS 205L  and MATH 242  .  Students must pass each class with a grade of C or better.
Co-Requisite(s) MATH 243   and PHYS 206L .
Offered (FALL/SPRING)



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