2018-2019 Academic Catalog

PHYS 155 Robotics and Experimental Physics

Learn how to build and control simple robotic devices, and along the way you will learn the fundamentals of logic and control common to all computer programming languages. We will perform numerous discovery exercises in the laboratory, to introduce and practice experimental methods and mathematical modeling useful for physics. This course satisfies the Core requirement for a laboratory course in the natural sciences.  Students who have taken PHYS 205 or CS 120 must have instructor approval to enroll in PHYS 155/ENGR 155.  Two two-hour laboratories per week.

Credits

3

Cross Listed Courses

ENGR 155

Prerequisite

Mathematics at the level of high-school pre-calculus (i.e., algebra, trigonometry, and elementary functions) will be used throughout this course, but calculus is not a prerequisite; high-school physics is recommended but not required.

Course Types

CL

Faculty

Cline, Kelly | Grossmann, Benjamin | Keeffe, Mary |

Offered

Annual Fall Semester