Fuller Description of Physics 9 Descriptions of Physics 9 Topics Physics 9 is offered with a variety of topics. This page contains more detailed descriptions of the various topics on which Physics 9 has focused in recent years.
Astronomy is the oldest of scientific endeavors.
This course will trace that history, and the subsequent discoveries that have produced our current understanding of the universe and our place in it. Topics covered include the motions of the planets in the solar system and their composition, the inner workings of the sun and stars, the variety of stellar objects, their life histories and eventual fates, neutron stars, black holes, quasars, galaxies, the expansion of the universe, the big bang and the fate of the universe. This course will be comprised of two parts. The first will address issues of cosmology in general and show how measurements have been able to narrow the range of possible models to big bang models. The key features are the observations of the expansion of the universe and the existence of the cosmic microwave background.