University of Toronto Mississauga
PHY100H5
What's Physics Got to Do With It?
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How is it graded?
45% final
From the 2025 syllabus. 4 graded components.
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From the calendar
Official source · University of Toronto MississaugaStephen Hawking once said: "We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special." The magic of Physics, with its ambitious goals of pushing the boundaries of knowledge, from finding the "God particle" to predicting the fate of the Universe, will be the focus of this course. The course is intended for those who are not trained in Physics and Mathematics but who nevertheless want to gain insight into this interesting and important field in a non-intimidating way. We will discover important concepts and theories through applications to everyday phenomena, including new energy sources, laser surgery, flat-screen TVs, wireless communications, GPS, etc. More advanced, but nevertheless fascinating and popular topics, will also be covered: time travel, relativity, ultracold atoms, quantum entanglement, black holes and the Higgs boson. No previous background in Physics is expected; high school algebra is recommended.
- Prerequisite
- None listed
- Exclusions
- PHY100H1PHY197H1PHY205H1
- Contact hours
- 24 lecture
- Total scheduled hours for the course, not per week.
Where the marks come from
2025 syllabus45% of the grade is decided in the final alone. Steady coursework cannot carry this course on its own.
Extracted from a published 2025 syllabus by deterministic parser. Components that could not be labelled are shown unresolved rather than folded into a neighbouring category.
How well we know this course
2023–2025Pyko’s archive holds 2 documents for PHY100H5, across 2 years between 2023 and 2025.
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- Final exams
- 1
- Syllabi
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Report an error →| Claim | Source | Captured | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course description, prerequisites, exclusions, contact hours | University of Toronto Mississauga | 2026-07-25 | public fact |
| Assessment weighting | Course syllabus, 2025 | 2026-07-25 | summary permitted |
| 2 archived documents, 2023-2025 | Pyko archive | 2026-07-25 | index only |
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