Physics Adjunct

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Southern Maine - South Portland, ME

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QUALIFICATIONS: MS or PhD preferred. Previous college teaching experience required.

PHYS 110 Technical Physics – Summer & Fall 2025 – South Portland

This course represents a non-calculus, but rigorously algebraic, approach to the analysis of the concepts and relationships of all the principal areas of Physics. Topics of study include Mechanics, such as Kinematics in one and two dimensions, Dynamics and Newton's Laws of Motion, Friction, Rotations and Torque, Uniform Circular Motion, Universal Gravitation, Momentum and Angular Momentum, Kinetic and Potential Energy, Properties of Solids and Fluids, Strength of Materials, Harmonic Motion, Waves, Sound, Light and Electromagnetic Waves, Heat and Thermodynamics, and Electricity and Magnetism, as well as Relativity, and Quantum and Nuclear Physics, if time permits. Emphasis will be placed in understanding natural phenomena and solving numerical problems in both the Metric (SI) and English (US) Systems of units. Weekly laboratory experiments help the student develop a feel for realistic measurements and meaningful calculations.

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