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BME 182Physics 2: Dynamics

Units
0.50
Faculty
Engineering
Subject
Biomedical Engineering

Not in the current Undergraduate Calendar. Shown as it appeared in 2025–26.

When it runs

  1. F24
  2. W25
  3. S25
  4. F25
  5. W26
  6. S26
  7. F26
  8. W27
  9. S27

Ran in 2 of the last 7 terms. Winter 2027: not on the schedule. Spring 2027: schedule not out yet.

The science of motion is taught with initial focus on particles, and then progressing to planar rigid body systems. Concepts such as inertia, momentum, work, energy, Newton's laws, and contact dynamics are covered, with particular application to human motions (e.g., walking, running, jumping, lifting, and throwing).

Prerequisites

Antirequisites

  • Not completed nor concurrently enrolled in any of the following:

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Reviewed on UW Flow

59% liked it15% easy67% useful

From 32 ratings and 7 comments on UW Flow. The most helpful comments, quoted as written, without names. Read them all on UW Flow.

  • Eihab cannot teach for life

    Jan 2024 · didn’t like it · 1 found this helpfulOn UW FlowRemove this

  • Dynamics is a challenging course. It was hard to understand everything in lectures, so following the textbook and doing homework problems is your best bet. Cons: prof can’t teach and had to pay for a textbook to submit our assignments. Pros: my final grade got curved 9%.

    Nov 2025 · didn’t like itOn UW FlowRemove this

  • The content was pretty standard. Honestly, if you've done high school physics and you were pretty good at that, it's exactly that but with more complicated math. Used lots of F=ma in this course

    Dec 2021 · liked itOn UW FlowRemove this

  • The course itself is a little challenging as we basically did 1 unit per week but Tais was a great prof and the method of attack guaranteed a lot of free marks even if you didn't know how to solve the question. The quizzes were lengthy but nothing that wasn't doable. The midterm was fair and the final was fair but very very long.

    Dec 2021 · liked itOn UW FlowRemove this

  • Had Jennifer Howcroft. The course was fairly well structured and her exams were fair but hated the course and disliked her as a prof. No biomedical context in this course and extremely dull content. I was literally forcing myself through but it drained willpower like a black hole.

    Nov 2019 · didn’t like itOn UW FlowRemove this

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Fall 2017

Check it elsewhere for Fall 2026

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