Online Physics Course
Summer Session 2025
Summer 2025 Online Physics Course
UConn’s Physics department offers a fully online physics course to help you get ahead, save money, or catch-up. Online physics classes are taught by UConn instructors and are delivered within an asynchronous format. You can participate at any time of day from nearly anywhere.
If you are a student from another school, you can take UConn summer classes online and transfer them to your home institution (you should check with your home institution to ensure transferability). With UConn’s online Physics summer course, you’re attending a class at one of the nations top-ranked public institutions.
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For a complete list of PHYS course offerings, including in-person sections, please visit our Summer 2025 Course Offerings page and select “PHYS – Physics” from the Subject filter.
Physics of Music (PHYS 1075Q)
PHYS 1075Q
Basic principles of physics and scientific reasoning will be taught in the context of the production and perception of music, emphasizing the historic and scientific interplay between physics and music. Basic quantitative laboratories pertaining to sound, music, and waves. No previous knowledge of physics or music is assumed. CA 3-LAB.
4.00 credits
Prerequisites: None.
Grading Basis: Graded
General Physics I (PHYS 1201Q)
PHYS 1201Q
A non-calculus based course introducing the laws of force and motion applied to mechanical phenomena. Concepts such as work, mechanical energy, linear and angular momentum, and energy conservation are explained. The laboratory offers fundamental training in precise measurements. CA 3-LAB.
4.00 credits
Prerequisites: MATH 1060Q or a qualifying score equivalent to pre-Calculus on the math placement assessment (placement.uconn.edu/mathematics-placement). Not open for credit to students who have passed PHYS 1401Q, 1501Q, or 1601Q. May not be taken out of sequence after passing PHYS 1202Q.
Grading Basis: Graded
General Physics Problems (PHYS 1230)
PHYS 1230
Physics problems, emphasizing applications of calculus, dealing with topics in general physics. Intended for those students who have taken or are taking PHYS 1202Q and who desire to have a calculus-based physics sequence equivalent to PHYS 1401Q-1402Q or 1501Q-1502Q.
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: PHYS 1202Q, and MATH 1122 or 1132Q, any of which may be taken concurrently. Not open for credit to students who have passed PHYS 1401Q, 1501Q or 1601Q.
Grading Basis: Graded