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  "college": "victor-valley-college",
  "edition": "2026-2027",
  "code": "PHYS",
  "name": "Physics",
  "sourceUrl": "https://catalog.vvc.edu/course-descriptions/phys/",
  "courses": [
    {
      "code": "PHYS 100",
      "subject": "PHYS",
      "number": "100",
      "title": "Introductory Physics",
      "units": "4",
      "hours": "54 lecture hours; 54 lab hours",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [
        "CSU",
        "UC"
      ],
      "description": "An introduction to physics for students who have not had physics, or who have not had physics recently. Fundamental principles of mechanics, waves, heat, electricity and magnetism, light, atomic and nuclear physics. (UC credit limitation).",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "summer-2026",
          "name": "Summer 2026",
          "sections": 2,
          "open": 2,
          "url": "/c/victor-valley-college/schedule/summer-2026/phys/#phys-100",
          "subject": "PHYS"
        },
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 3,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/victor-valley-college/schedule/fall-2026/phys/#phys-100",
          "subject": "PHYS"
        },
        {
          "term": "winter-2027",
          "name": "Winter 2027",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 0,
          "url": "/c/victor-valley-college/schedule/winter-2027/phys/#phys-100",
          "subject": "PHYS"
        },
        {
          "term": "spring-2027",
          "name": "Spring 2027",
          "sections": 2,
          "open": 0,
          "url": "/c/victor-valley-college/schedule/spring-2027/phys/#phys-100",
          "subject": "PHYS"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "PHYS 150",
      "subject": "PHYS",
      "number": "150",
      "title": "College Physics I",
      "units": "4",
      "hours": "54 lecture hours; 54 lab hours",
      "prerequisite": "(MATH 104) and (MATH 105, Minimum grade C)",
      "cid": [
        "PHYS 100 S"
      ],
      "transfer": [
        "CSU",
        "UC"
      ],
      "description": "This is the first course in an algebra-based two-semester physics sequence. Topics include motion, forces, Newtons's laws, conservation of energy, conservation of momentum, rotational motion, rotational equilibrium, liquids and solids, heat, thermo-physics, vibration, and waves. C-ID PHYS 100 S.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "PHYS 160",
      "subject": "PHYS",
      "number": "160",
      "title": "College Physics II",
      "units": "4",
      "hours": "54 lecture hours; 54 lab hours",
      "prerequisite": "PHYS 150, Minimum grade C",
      "cid": [
        "PHYS 100 S"
      ],
      "transfer": [
        "CSU"
      ],
      "description": "The second semester of an algebra-based two-semester physics sequence. Topics include electricity, magnetism, optics, atomic physics and nuclear physics. The laws of physics are investigated and applied to problem solving. C-ID PHYS 100 S.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "PHYS 201",
      "subject": "PHYS",
      "number": "201",
      "title": "Engineering Physics I-Mechanics",
      "units": "4",
      "hours": "54 lecture hours; 54 lab hours",
      "corequisite": "MATH 226 or MATH 226H, may be taken as a prerequisite or concurrently. Minimum grade C.",
      "cid": [
        "PHYS 205",
        "PHYS 200 S"
      ],
      "transfer": [
        "CSU",
        "UC"
      ],
      "description": "Course covers a study of vectors, rectilinear motion, motion in a plane, particle dynamics, work and energy, conservation laws, collisions, rotational kinematics and dynamics. (UC credit limitation). C-ID PHYS 205 and PHYS 200 S.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 4,
          "open": 0,
          "url": "/c/victor-valley-college/schedule/fall-2026/phys/#phys-201",
          "subject": "PHYS"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "PHYS 202",
      "subject": "PHYS",
      "number": "202",
      "title": "Engineering Physics II - Fluids, Sound, and Thermodynamics",
      "units": "4",
      "hours": "54 lecture hours; 54 lab hours",
      "prerequisite": "PHYS 201, Minimum grade C",
      "corequisite": "MATH 227 or MATH 227H",
      "cid": [
        "PHYS 200 S"
      ],
      "transfer": [
        "CSU",
        "UC"
      ],
      "description": "Course covers the study of equilibrium of rigid bodies, oscillations, gravitation, fluid statics and dynamics, waves in elastic media, sound and thermodynamics. (UC credit limitation). C-ID PHYS 200 S.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "spring-2027",
          "name": "Spring 2027",
          "sections": 3,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/victor-valley-college/schedule/spring-2027/phys/#phys-202",
          "subject": "PHYS"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "PHYS 203",
      "subject": "PHYS",
      "number": "203",
      "title": "Engineering Physics III Electricity and Magnetism",
      "units": "4",
      "hours": "54 lecture hours; 54 lab hours",
      "prerequisite": "PHYS 202, Minimum grade C",
      "corequisite": "MATH 228 or MATH 228H",
      "cid": [
        "PHYS 210",
        "PHYS 200 S"
      ],
      "transfer": [
        "CSU",
        "UC"
      ],
      "description": "Course covers charge and electric force, the electric field, electric potential, capacitors and dielectrics, direct current and resistance, electromotive force and circuits, the magnetic field, inductance, magnetic properties of matter, electromagnetic oscillations, alternating currents, electromagnetic waves, and the Maxwell Equations.(UC credit limitation). C-ID PHYS 210 and PHYS 200 S.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/victor-valley-college/schedule/fall-2026/phys/#phys-203",
          "subject": "PHYS"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "PHYS 204",
      "subject": "PHYS",
      "number": "204",
      "title": "Engineering Physics IV-Optics and Modern Physics",
      "units": "4",
      "hours": "54 lecture hours; 54 lab hours",
      "prerequisite": "PHYS 203, Minimum grade C",
      "cid": [
        "PHYS 200 S"
      ],
      "transfer": [
        "CSU",
        "UC"
      ],
      "description": "The nature and propagation of light, reflection and refraction, interference, diffraction, gratings and spectra, relativity, elements of quantum physics, waves and particles, nuclear physics. (UC credit limitation). C-ID PHYS 200 S.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "PHYS 210",
      "subject": "PHYS",
      "number": "210",
      "title": "Computer Methods for Engineers",
      "units": "4",
      "hours": "54 lecture hours; 54 lab hours",
      "prerequisite": "MATH 227 or MATH 227H, Minimum grade C",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [
        "CSU"
      ],
      "description": "This course is an introduction to methods and techniques for solving engineering problems using numerical-analysis computer-application programs, technical computing and visualization using MATLAB software. The course is structured to allow students to have a thorough hands-on experience with examples and exercises applied to a wide variety of practical engineering problems.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "spring-2027",
          "name": "Spring 2027",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/victor-valley-college/schedule/spring-2027/phys/#phys-210",
          "subject": "PHYS"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "PHYS 221",
      "subject": "PHYS",
      "number": "221",
      "title": "General Physics I",
      "units": "4",
      "hours": "54 lecture hours; 54 lab hours",
      "prerequisite": "MATH 104, Minimum grade C",
      "corequisite": "MATH 226 or MATH 226H",
      "advisory": "PHYS 100",
      "cid": [
        "PHYS 100 S"
      ],
      "transfer": [
        "CSU",
        "UC"
      ],
      "description": "Course covers vectors motion in one and two dimensions, particle dynamics, work energy, conservation laws, collisions, rotational motion and dynamics, thermodynamics. (UC credit limitation). C-ID PHYS 100 S.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 2,
          "open": 0,
          "url": "/c/victor-valley-college/schedule/fall-2026/phys/#phys-221",
          "subject": "PHYS"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "PHYS 222",
      "subject": "PHYS",
      "number": "222",
      "title": "General Physics II",
      "units": "4",
      "hours": "54 lecture hours; 54 lab hours",
      "prerequisite": "PHYS 221, Minimum grade C",
      "corequisite": "MATH 227 or MATH 227H",
      "advisory": "PHYS-100",
      "cid": [
        "PHYS 100 S"
      ],
      "transfer": [
        "CSU",
        "UC"
      ],
      "description": "Topics include electromagnetic theory, oscillations, waves, geometrical optics, interference and diffraction quantum physics, atomic and nuclear physics. C-ID PHYS 100 S.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "spring-2027",
          "name": "Spring 2027",
          "sections": 2,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/victor-valley-college/schedule/spring-2027/phys/#phys-222",
          "subject": "PHYS"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "PHYS 230",
      "subject": "PHYS",
      "number": "230",
      "title": "Statics",
      "units": "3",
      "hours": "54 lecture hours",
      "prerequisite": "(PHYS 201) and (MATH 227 or MATH 227H, Minimum grade C)",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [
        "CSU",
        "UC"
      ],
      "description": "This class is concerned with the analysis of forces on physical systems in static equilibrium. Topics covered include: Force and moment vectors, resultants. Principles of statics and free-body diagrams. Applications to simple trusses, frames, and machines. Distributed loads. Internal forces in beams. Properties of areas, second moments. Laws of friction.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/victor-valley-college/schedule/fall-2026/phys/#phys-230",
          "subject": "PHYS"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "PHYS 240",
      "subject": "PHYS",
      "number": "240",
      "title": "Material Science and Engineering",
      "units": "3",
      "hours": "54 lecture hours",
      "prerequisite": "(CHEM 201) and (PHYS 202, Minimum grade C)",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [
        "CSU",
        "UC"
      ],
      "description": "This course covers major topics related to engineering design, manufacturing, and the properties of materials used in modern component construction. Students will learn to implement design methods required to efficiently use manufacturing methods such as machining, forming, and molding. In addition, case studies of parts and assemblies which incorporate various metals, ceramics, polymers, semiconductors, composites, and superconductors, will be used for comparing product lines which may or may not minimize costs, optimize functionality, and reduce manufacturing time. Atomic and optical properties are key elements which are studied in detail to provide a firm support for student assumptions during analysis.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "spring-2027",
          "name": "Spring 2027",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/victor-valley-college/schedule/spring-2027/phys/#phys-240",
          "subject": "PHYS"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "PHYS 250",
      "subject": "PHYS",
      "number": "250",
      "title": "Thermodynamics",
      "units": "3",
      "hours": "54 lecture hours",
      "prerequisite": "(PHYS 202, Minimum grade C) and (MATH 228)",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [
        "CSU",
        "UC"
      ],
      "description": "This course covers major topics related to thermodynamic systems. Students will learn to identify the control mass and control volume in thermodynamic problems, calculate properties of pure substances, map and analyze processes on T-V, P-V, and T-S diagrams, apply the first and second laws of thermodynamics to control mass and control volume processes, and use the Carnot thermodynamic cycle to calculate the limits of the thermal efficiency.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    }
  ]
}