PHYS 298

Fall 2017 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 28-Dec 13

Freshmen/Sophomore Special Topics in Physics

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Credit: 0 TO 4 hours.

Topical offerings of technical interest, skills, and knowledge in physics, and its practice, intended to augment the existing curriculum at the introductory level.

Approved for Letter and S/U grading. May be repeated in separate terms up to 12 credit hours if topics vary. Prerequisite: See Class Schedule or departmental course information for topics and prerequisites. For students with freshman or sophomore standing.

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PHYS 298 class schedule data for fall 2017
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	67785	Lecture	OWL	4:00PM -5:50PM	R	Loomis Laboratory	Gollin, G	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/28/17-12/13/17 Credit: 2 hours Section Info: You will learn to do remarkable things. By the end of the first week you will calculate the trajectory of a relativistic starship and confirm an insight of Ramanujan, the "Man Who Knew Infinity." A week after that you will generate diagrams of spacetime curvature around black holes. You will determine the slingshot trajectory for a tour of the gas giants and calculate pi using simulated toothpicks. There will be chaos, and fractal geometry, and pattern recognition in noisy environments. You will learn that a Python is not just a snake, nor a Spyder just an arachnid. And you will be pioneers: you are going to help us change the way we teach undergraduate physics at the University of Illinois.