PHYS 230 Dynamics of Simple Systems

3 credits · Physics · Faculty of Science · Offered: Fall

Translational motion under Newton's laws; forces, momentum, work/energy theorem. Special relativity; Lorentz transforms, relativistic mechanics, mass/energy equivalence. Topics in rotational dynamics. Noninertial frames.

Prerequisites

CEGEP Physics or PHYS 131.

Prerequisite courses: PHYS 131

Corequisites

MATH 222

Restrictions

Not open to students taking or having passed PHYS 251

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