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Spring 2022
Sep 09, 2025
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PHY 2048 - General Physics I
Course Requirements: Must be taken concurrently with lab and, if dropped, then dropped simultaneously. May not receive credit for both the PHY 2053 and PHY 2048 courses. Not repeatable. First semester of a two-semester sequence of calculus-based General Physics which includes a study of mechanics, wave motion, sound, thermodynamics, geometrical and physical optics, electricity and magnetism for students majoring in Physics, Chemistry, and Engineering physics which includes a study of mechanics, heat, and fluids.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Class Lecture, Other
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Physics Department

Course Attributes:
USFT-FKL NS Phy Sci (CANP), State GE Core Nat Sci (SGEN), USFSM Gen Ed Elective (SMEL), USFSM Natural Sci (SMNS), USFSP Natural Science (SPNS)


Prerequisites:
(Undergraduate level MAC 2311 Minimum Grade of C or Graduate level MAC 2311 Minimum Grade of C or Non-Degree level MAC 2311 Minimum Grade of C or Undergraduate level MAC 2281 Minimum Grade of C or Graduate level MAC 2281 Minimum Grade of C or Non-Degree level MAC 2281 Minimum Grade of C or Calculus AB 3 or Calculus AB Subscore 3 or Calculus BC 3) and (Undergraduate level PHY 2048L Minimum Grade of C or Graduate level PHY 2048L Minimum Grade of C or Non-Degree level PHY 2048L Minimum Grade of C or Non-Degree level PHY 2053L Minimum Grade of C or Undergraduate level PHY 2053L Minimum Grade of C or Graduate level PHY 2053L Minimum Grade of C or Undergraduate level PHY 1053L Minimum Grade of C or Non-Degree level PHY 1053L Minimum Grade of C or Graduate level PHY 1053L Minimum Grade of C or Undergraduate level PHY 1048L Minimum Grade of C or Graduate level PHY 1048L Minimum Grade of C or Non-Degree level PHY 1048L Minimum Grade of C or Physics C : Mechanics 3 or Physics 1 3 or Physics 2 3 or Physics C:Elcty/Mgntsm 3) or Calculus BC 3 and Undergraduate level PHY 2048C Minimum Grade of C

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