PHYS 0478 - THE UNIVERSE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Intended for honors students who are not physics majors the course will be directed mainly to social science and humanities students. Topics: review of needed mathematics. Survey of objects in the sky. Survey of the basic physics needed for the course: mechanics, gravity, energy, electromagnetic waves, optics, atomic and nuclear physics. Sun, stable stars, instable stars, novas, doublestars. Evolution of stars: pulsars, neutron stars, black holes. Star cluster, globular cluster. Between the stars. Quiet, active and radio galaxies, quasars. Cosmology.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis

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