PHYS 150
How Nature Works
Credit: 3 hours.
This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for a
Physical Sciences course.Nonmathematical attempt to bridge the two-culture gap; takes examples from modern physics: relativity, elementary particles, quantum theory, statistics, etc., and covers basic philosophical concepts in physics which pervade all human disciplines: model-making, dynamics, ensemble behavior, and symmetry. Lecture format.