Students cultivate an understanding of physics through inquiry-based investigations of the big ideas of mechanics, heat and sound, specifically kinematics, dynamics, circular motion and gravitation, energy, momentum, simple harmonic motion, torque and rotational motion, and mechanical waves and sound. This is an algebra-based (non-calculus) course in mechanics that fulfills a general physics requirement. Students will experience a high-quality curriculum designed by the faculty at The University of Texas at Austin. Successful completion of this course earns 4 hours of college credit for PHY 302K or PHY 102M and high school credit for Physics.