A history of the transformation of speculations about the nature of the universe from mythology to science, culminating in the astonishing convergence of the studies of the unimaginably small and the inconceivably large in modern physical cosmology. Restricted to freshmen. The origin and meaning of the modern scientific worldview. This course satisfies the Freshman Writing Requirement. Restricted to freshmen.
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It is neither necessary nor possible to register for this course. 25 Also listed as Hist 481. This course teaches computer simulation methods and how they are used to treat real problems in physics and other areas. Examples of such problems include study of the solar system, oscillatory motion and chaos, earthquakes and forest fire, wave propagation, percolation and fractals, phase transitions, random processes, quantum mechanics, and protein folding. The course is for undergraduate students in physics and related disciplines.