desperate question -- online physics??

[tigress]

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I'm sort of a little desperate here. I haven't taken Physics II, and I need it before I can start school. I keep trying to find a course that I can take, but I work full-time and I'm not leaving until mid-June. There's just really no way I can take a course during the day before then, but the night courses I'm finding don't have labs. I'm also having a baby, due in early August, which complicates matters even more. (If a class ends on July 31st, for example, that's probably pushing it a little. I could always try, though.)

Assuming I can't convince whatever school I choose to waive this requirement (which I think is a long shot), does anybody have advice? Is there any such thing as an online physics course? I can imagine doing computer-based labs, especially for physics.

I didn't mean to leave this until so late. Somehow time got away from me, and I couldn't find a course to take, and now here I am.

help...please

 

[kovalchuk]

ya, there are online physics courses. i'm currently taking one... but its at a canadian school, so i don't know how much that will help your life at all. but if you're interested, its at athabasca university, and there is a lab component (they send you this HUGE kit so that you can do ur labs at home)

good luck!

Wow that has to be a huge kit.

 

[tigress]

Hmm, thanks. I don't know if they'd accept that credit. But at least it's a start -- there is such a thing as online physics! The search is on 😛

 

[tigress]

Okay this isn't working. I spent the past 40 minutes looking for something, but I can't find. (And I'm actually at work, but I'm just waiting to centrifuge blood so I'm bored. But I'm starting to worry about this physics thing.)

 

[Joseph]

Tigress,

You can take physics lab classes online from the CCAC (Community College of Allegheny County), based in the Pittsburgh area. Their website is www.ccac.edu - I just checked and they are offering online Physics II (PHY-142, 4 credits) right now. I signed up for this class a few years back, but I didn't end up taking it (long story, the professor actually passed away a few days before the class was supposed to begin). Anyway, the lab was done using a software package that this professor had developed. It looks like they got a new professor to teach his classes. I hope that you can find a class that will work for you. 🙂