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2018-2019 Hill Book (Class of 2022) 
    
2018-2019 Hill Book (Class of 2022) [ARCHIVED HILL BOOK]

PHY 195 - Quarks and Quanta: Exploring the Subatomic World

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The search for the ultimate building blocks of matter is traced from antiquity up to the recent discovery of the Higgs boson, culminating in the standard model of particle physics. The symmetry ideas that underlie the theory and the role of particles in the evolution of the universe are emphasized.

General Education Attribute(s): Natural Scientific Inquiry