This course explores the nature of energy, its application in modern society and a variety of issues associated with that use. The course will cover the physical principles of energy in general, and of electrical energy, electromagnetic (optical) energy, nuclear energy and thermodynamics in particular. Applications and related issues will include the role of energy in society, fossil fuels, electric power plants, automobiles, global warming and the ozone layer and energy conservation; other topics may include nuclear, solar and other sources of energy. This course contains a lab component and makes extensive use of elementary algebra, particularly in the use of scientific notation. Also offered as Physics 107 .
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107. Energy.