PHY202H1F
The Physics of Science Fiction and Gaming
Official description
The Physics of time travel, teleportation, levitation, invisibility, special effects, and other physics related topics found in literature, film, and gaming. The course will analyze the realism of physical phenomena in these media, and consider the impact of these concepts on science and society.
( PHY202H1 is primarily intended as a Breadth Requirement course for students in the Humanities and Social Sciences with no university-level background in physics. Any student with university-level credit in physics, including students with secondary school transfer credits in physics is ineligible to take this course).
- Prerequisite
- n.a.
- Co-requisite
- n.a.
- Exclusion
- Any PHY course taken previously or concurrently (except PHY196H1/ PHY197H1/ PHY198H1/ PHY199H1/PHY100H1/PHY205H1/PHY207H1) PHY100H1/ PHY205H1/ PHY207H1)
- Recommended preparation
- n.a.
- Breadth requirement
- BR=5
- Distribution requirement
- DR=SCI
- course title
- PHY202H1F
- session
- fall
- year of study
- 2nd year
- time and location
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24L: LEC0101: MW2 12T: W3/W4 Students/TAs: Room information available on ACORN (https://www.acorn.utoronto.ca/) Instructors: Room information available in the LSM Portal (https://lsm.utoronto.ca/lsm_portal) Students may add or change a Tutorial (TUT) section via ACORN until September 21, 2026. Starting September 22, 2026, adding or changing of Tutorial sections must be requested online at: https://forms.office.com/r/xNCRzHZtSP.