These sections of PHYS 122 and MATH 221 are taught as a combined course. All students must be enrolled in both courses. The text for this course is Volume Two of Integrated Physics and Calculus by Andy Rex and Martin Jackson.

As a prerequisite for this course, students must have an understanding of the fundamental ideas taught in the first and second semesters of the calculus sequence and the first semester of the physics sequence. On the mathematical side, the main theme in the course is extending the ideas of calculus to functions which have vector inputs and either scalar outputs or vector outputs. On the physics side, these types of function appear in the study of three important forces: gravitational, electric, and magnetic.

Students who take separate physics and calculus courses find many points of contact between the two fields. Physics relies on calculus as a tool or language for precise quantitative description of the natural world. Describing the natural world provided motivation for the developers of calculus, notably Newton. Our idea in this combined physics and calculus course is to enrich both subjects by emphasizing the many connections.

MATH 221 satisfies the Mathematical Approaches category in the University Core Requirements. In successfully completing the calculus course, you should come to further appreciate the power of mathematics and formal methods in providing a way of understanding a problem unambiguously, describing its relation to other problems, and specifying clearly an approach to its solution. You should develop a variety of new mathematical skills and increase your understanding of formal reasoning. Specifically, in successfully completing this mathematics course, you should understand the differential and integral calculus of multivariate functions and the basics of vector analysis.

PHYS 122 satisfies one unit of the Natrual Scientific Approaches category in the University Core Requirements. In successfully completing this physics course, you should learn to observe the material world around us through the eyes of a physicist , define appropriate questions about the physical world, develop an approach to solving complex problems, apply the scientific method, and communicate orally and in writing about physics. In addition, you should be prepared for advanced courses in physics and a better educated voter with technical and scientific knowledge. Specifically, in successfully completing this physics course you should be able to describe and define electric charges, electric fields, and electric potentials and electric currents, magnetic fields, and vector potentials and use them to describe and to explain observable electromagnetic phenomena; apply Maxwell's equations to determine capacitance, resistance, and inductance; and analyze electromagnetic behavior in DC circuits that include capacitors, resistors, and inductors.