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2011-2012 HillBook (Class of 2015) [ARCHIVED HILL BOOK]

PHY 196 - Quantum World and Relativity

Three Credits
Fall and Spring Semesters

Introduction to the mysteries of quantum physics and relativity for the general student. Despite nearly a century of confirmations, the basic rules of quantum physics and relativity are still strange, mysterious, and counter-intuitive, and fun to think about. This course examines these rules – their discovery, content, and experimental verifications – and the people who created them – Einstein, Bohr, DeBroglie, Heisenberg, etc. You do not need to be a science major to take this course.
Fulfills the General Education Natural Scientific Inquiry requirement.