Natural Sciences Requirement. Natural Sciences Requirement. I Introduction to the analysis of the interplay between religious, philosophical and scientific attempts to understand the universe. Continuation of PHY203. The development of scientific thought from antiquity to the 20 th century and the new ideas of relativity and quantum mechanics.
Key themes are the evolving universe and the development of Newtonian mechanics.
The influence of modern physics on the development of scientific thought. We attempt to understand its influence on a new world view. We will discuss the origin and the future of the universe. Natural Sciences Requirement. Natural Sciences Requirement .