PHY224H1S - WINTER
Practical Physics I
Official description
Develops the core practical experimental and computational skills necessary to do Physics. Students tackle simple physics questions involving mathematical models, computational simulations and solutions, experimental measurements, data and uncertainty analysis.
- Prerequisite
- PHY132H1/152H1, (MAT135H1,MAT136H1)/MAT137Y1/MAT157Y1
- Co-requisite
- PHY231H1/250H1/252H1/254H1/256H1
- Recommended preparation
- n.a.
- Textbook
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['On-line Documents:', '- Computational Physics: https://computation.physics.utoronto.ca/', '- Computational exercises: see Quercus page', '- Experiments and exercises guide sheets: see Quercus page'] - Breadth requirement
- BR=5
- Distribution requirement
- DR=SCI
Additional information
Background: No computational experience is required. Students should be familiar with data and file manipulation.
The first half of the course is dedicated to learning programming in Python; in the second part students apply programming to modeling physical systems and to analyze experimental data.
- course title
- PHY224H1S - WINTER
- session
- winter
- year of study
- 2nd year
- time and location
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72P: LEC0101: M3-6, F1-4 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)
- instructor
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