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University of Toronto Mississauga

PHY136H5

Physics for Life and Environmental Sciences I

Credit0.5
InstructorW. Ghobriel
Prerequisite2 requirements, 2 options
Total contact hours36 lecture · 15 practical · 12 tutorial
Evidence1 syllabus · 3 papers
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PHY136H5

What do I need?

These are the weights from the syllabus we have. Yours might be a bit different depending on your term and instructor, so feel free to change anything that doesn't match.

AssessmentGrade %Weight %
%

You need 80.0% across the remaining 100% to finish at 80%.

What was the average?

Not reported

No student has contributed a result for this offering yet.

How is it graded?

40% final

From the Fall 2026 syllabus. 10 graded components.

How confident is this?

Unknown

A small number of terms, so read it as a range.

From the calendar

Official source · University of Toronto Mississauga

A first-year Physics course for students not pursuing Physics or Astronomy. It focuses on conceptual understanding and problem-solving in forces, motion, rotational dynamics, and waves, with applications to life and environmental sciences.

Exclusions
PHY131H1PHY151H1PHYA10H3PHYA11H3
Contact hours
36 lecture · 15 practical · 12 tutorial
Total scheduled hours for the course, not per week.

One option from each line

[Grade 12 Advanced Functions (MHF4U) or Grade 12 Calculus &amp

PHY100H5

Where the marks come from

Fall 2026 syllabus
Final Exam · 40%Midterm Test · 20%Lab Report 1 · 5%Lab Report 2 · 5%Lab Report 3 · 5%Lab Report 4 · 5%Quiz 1 · 5%Quiz 2 · 5%Quiz 3 · 5%Quiz 4 · 5%

40% of the grade is decided in the final alone. Steady coursework cannot carry this course on its own.

Extracted from a published Fall 2026 syllabus — verified against the university's own document. Components that could not be labelled are shown unresolved rather than folded into a neighbouring category.

How well we know this course

2022–2024

Pyko’s archive holds 4 documents for PHY136H5, across 3 years between 2022 and 2024.

3
Final exams
1
Syllabi

Counts, not a library. Pyko does not host or distribute course files, and this page is not an offer to supply one — the archive is what lets these pages describe how a course is assessed.

What we don’t have yet

A course averageNo term has been reported for this offering. Averages come from students who contribute their own results, and nobody has yet.
Instructor-level detailAverages are not split by instructor. At these sample sizes the difference between sections is noise, not signal.

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ClaimSourceCapturedStatus
Course description, prerequisites, exclusions, contact hoursUniversity of Toronto Mississauga2026-07-25public fact
4 archived documents, 2022-2024Pyko archive2026-07-25index only
Grading structure, description and credit weight from the official Fall 2026 syllabus (instructor: W. Ghobriel)Official Fall 2026 course syllabus (University of Toronto Mississauga)2026-09-05official syllabus

Page last verified 2026-09-05. A claim whose source moves is withdrawn before it goes stale.

What this opens up

9 courses list PHY136H5 as a prerequisite

The other 5 have no page yet. Listing a course here means it names PHY136H5 among its prerequisites — often as one of several ways to satisfy the same requirement, so this is what PHY136H5 makes available, not what it alone guarantees.

Around this course

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