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PHY 130:
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This course examines how mathematics and natural philosophy became the discipline we know today as physics. It is largely a history of science course that will take the student through the scientific revolutions that occurred during the last 500 years. Although some time will be spent on the early 'modern scientists' like Galileo and Newton, the focus will be on the past two centuries, in particular on the 'quantum century' that began with Max Planck around 1900. The concluding part of the course includes a look at cosmology and at the relationship between science and technology.
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