Physics 150 Overview
What is it?
- A Course for non-scientists
- NOT a non-scientific course!!
- What is the purpose of the course?
- To discover what physics is about, i.e., how do we understand the world?
- Physics as a paradigm for science
- Science as part of our culture and society
- How scientific knowledge was (and is!) created
- Conceptual understanding stressed … with minimum mathematics and problems No knowledge of calculus is required
- Discovery that nature is stranger than any person has imagined