The purpose of this course is to explore the development and content of the major ideas that have led to our understanding of the physical universe. As in any science course you will learn about many of the important concepts, theories, and laws that make up the content of the science, physics in this case. But this course goes beyond that; it presents science as experience, as an integrated and exciting intellectual adventure, as the product of humankind’s continual drive to know and to understand our world and our relationship to it
