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2025-2026 college catalog 
    
2025-2026 college catalog
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PHY 151 - General Physics 1


Credit(s): 5
Lecture Hours: 4
Lab Hours: 2

This course is the first semester of a two-semester sequence in pre-calculus based physics. It is appropriate for students in pre-dental, pre-medical, nursing, education, and other programs which require a beginning course in physics. The course includes the study of mechanics, vibratory motion and waves, fundamentals of heat and thermodynamics.
IAI GECC Course No. P1 900L
Applicable toward graduation at Sandburg where program structure permits:
Degree or Certificate: AA, AS, AFA, AAS, AGS, and Certificates where applicable (1.1)

Offered: Fall
Prerequisite(s): MAT 140  or concurrent enrollment
General Education: Science, Lab Science



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