PHYS 2500 - High Altitude Balloon Experience

1.5 Credits
This course introduces students to the world of high-altitude ballooning (HAB). It provides the background necessary to design a pod with scientific sensors and to participate in the launch and retrieval of a balloon with the payload attached. It is a five-week course with the schedule appropriate to an individual quarter.

Prerequisites: (2) College-level reading, writing, and math proficiency; and PHYS 1010; or PHYS 110A, PHYS 110B; and PHYS 110C; or PHYS 210A, PHYS 210B, and PHYS 210C; or instructor approval must be completed prior to taking this course.
Lec: 1.5 Lab: 0 Cr: 1.5

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