PHYS 120 — Waves, Energy & Fluids
Mathematics & Science · 4 units · Required core — everyone takes it
The Two Registers
- Catalog register: Wave mechanics, thermodynamics, and fluid dynamics; laboratory.
- Teaching frame: Swell generation, refraction at Point Loma, why Black’s breaks (bathymetric focusing); board hydrodynamics and fin theory; marine-layer thermodynamics.
Outcomes Served
- Judgment
- Craft
What This Course Is About
Why Black’s breaks, why fins hold, why the marine layer burns off at eleven — the physics of the place, ending in a board you shaped with math you can show.
The Made Thing
A shaped board with design calculations, defended.
The Daily Path
One session per course day — each one designed to look easy and pull you in. This course is at syllabus stage — the daily path is not yet written, so it is not yet live.
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Every course here is built to one standard: it ends in a made thing you can show, and it ships day by day.