Learning Objectives:

Anticipated Learning Outcomes for 100- and 200- Level Courses:

  1. Recognizing concepts that involve developing mathematical descriptions of physical phenomena, such as weights and measures, conservation laws, moving objects, fields and forces. [knowledge, evaluation, analysis]
  2. Judiciously discriminating between reliable and less reliable information in decision-making. [analysis]
  3. Knowing the scientific method and the process of critically evaluating scientific information. [knowledge, comprehension, evaluation]
Anticipated Learning Outcomes for this Course:

  1. Representing data and mathematical relationships using tables, equations, graphs and words. [knowledge, evaluation, analysis]
  2. Naming and analyzing dimensions of physical quantities, such as time, mass, acceleration and force. [knowledge, analysis]
  3. Identifying the known and unknown variables in a physics problem. [comprehension]
  4. Recognizing the relevant formulae to solve a physics problem.[knowledge]
  5. Formulating the solution of a physics problem. [synthesis]
  6. Drawing valid conclusions from experimental data. [evaluation]
  7. Estimating the order of magnitude of a result. [evaluation]

Andreas G. Piepke
Last modified: Thu Dec 20 11:28:19 CST 2007