Course Description
Introductory Physics I, PHYS 6A
Elementary mechanics. Vectors, Newton's laws, inverse square force laws, work and energy, conservation of momentum and energy, and oscillations.
Key Information
Credit: 5 quarter units /
3.33 semester units credit
UC Santa Cruz, Physics
Course Credit:
Upon successful completion, all online courses offered through cross-enrollment provide UC unit credit. Some courses are approved for GE, major preparation and/or, major credit or can be used as a substitute for a course at your campus.If "unit credit" is listed by your campus, consult your department, academic adviser or Student Affairs division to inquire about the petition process for more than unit credit for the course.
UC Berkeley:
Unit Credit
UC Davis:
General Education: AH.
UC Irvine:
Course Equivalence: UCI Physics 3A
UC Los Angeles:
Course Equivalence: PHYSICS 5A
UC Merced:
Unit Credit (see your Academic Advisor)
UC Riverside:
Course Equivalence: UCR PHYS 002A
UC San Diego:
Course Equivalence: UCSD PHYS 1A
General Education: Warren - May be counted depending on major/PofC; Revelle - Physics or one course towards Natural Science; TMC Physics Natural Science; Sixth - Analytical Methodologies; Muir: 1 course in a Natural Sciences theme in "Chemistry, Physics, and the Environment"; ERC - 1 natural science, Seventh - 1 course towards Alternatives - Natural Sciences and Engineering;
UC San Francisco:
Unit Credit
UC Santa Barbara:
General Education: Area C - Mathematics, Science, and Technology and Quantitative Relationships
UC Santa Cruz:
General Education: MF, IN, Q.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite(s): Mathematics 11A or 19A or 20A or Applied Mathematics and Statistics 15A. Concurrent enrollment in course 6L required.
More About The Course
Discussion sections will be held online using the online video conferencing service Zoom. When the term starts, each student enrolled in the class must select a discussion section with a maximum enrollment of 35 students per section. To select a discussion section, you must log into the LMS then click the item “People” in the left sidebar, then click “Groups.” Choose one of the sections with less than 35 students and join it.
Course Creators
Onuttom Narayan
Joshua Deutsch
Joshua Deutsch is Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He got his undergraduate B.A. from the University of California, San Diego (1978) and his Ph.D. from Cambridge University (1983). After that he had postdoctoral positions at Cambridge and at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Santa Barbara. In 1986 he moved to U.C. Santa Cruz where he has been ever since.
Deutsch's research has spanned a large number of areas: statics and dynamics of polymers, topological constraints in polymers, electrophoresis of DNA, general non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, quantum dissipation, polymers in turbulent flow, passive scalar fields, scaling properties of stochastic differential equations, multifractal statistics, foundations of quantum statistical mechanics, quantum simulation techniques, protein folding, drug design, cancer diagnosis using microarrays, dynamics of magnetic systems, anomalous one dimensional heat conduction, polymers in a vacuum, ooplasmic streaming in drosophila oocytes, photomechanical energy conversion, the role of non-coding RNA in genetic networks, and extreme quantum fluctuations. He uses his knowledge of different areas to make connections to new areas that have not been made before.
Joshua Deutsch is Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He got his undergraduate B.A. from the University of California, San Diego (1978) and his Ph.D. from Cambridge University (1983). After that he had postdoctoral positions at Cambridge and at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Santa Barbara. In 1986 he moved to U.C. Santa Cruz where he has been ever ...Joshua Deutsch is Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He got his undergraduate B.A. from the University of California, San Diego (1978) and his Ph.D. from Cambridge University (1983). After that he had postdoctoral positions at Cambridge and at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Santa Barbara. In 1986 he moved to U.C. Santa Cruz where he has been ever since.
Deutsch's research has spanned a large number of areas: statics and dynamics of polymers, topological constraints in polymers, electrophoresis of DNA, general non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, quantum dissipation, polymers in turbulent flow, passive scalar fields, scaling properties of stochastic differential equations, multifractal statistics, foundations of quantum statistical mechanics, quantum simulation techniques, protein folding, drug design, cancer diagnosis using microarrays, dynamics of magnetic systems, anomalous one dimensional heat conduction, polymers in a vacuum, ooplasmic streaming in drosophila oocytes, photomechanical energy conversion, the role of non-coding RNA in genetic networks, and extreme quantum fluctuations. He uses his knowledge of different areas to make connections to new areas that have not been made before.
