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Among those who teach this course there is concern as to which topics to
cover and how long to spend on each topic. In recent years topics in
mechanics have been covered the first semester and topics in electricity,
magnetism, and optics the second semester. Here mechanics includes
kinematics, Newton's laws, work-energy, impulse-momentum, gravity,
rotational kinematics and dynamics, oscillations, mechanical waves, and
sometimes fluids. The second semester typically includes all the E&M
topics typically offered in a textbook, excluding ac circuits, an optics
includes geometrical and physical optics. Typically the course enrollment
900 and includes English, history, and political science majors as well as
those majoring in science and engineering.