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PHYS115

Physics for Policymakers

Subject code

PHYS

Course Number

115

Instructor(s)

N. Lundblad

Course Long Title

Physics for Policymakers

Description

This course presents a minimally mathematical survey of advanced physics aimed at providing future policymakers, executives, and elected officials with background necessary to be comfortable with the increasing scientific and technological nature of economic and political issues. Topics covered include energy and power, atoms, heat, radioactivity and nuclear power, gravity and space, electricity and magnetism, waves and light, climate change, quantum physics, and relativity.

Modes of Inquiry

Scientific Reasoning [SR]

GEC This Course Belongs To

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