PHYS115
Physics for Policymakers
Subject code
PHYS
Course Number
115
Department(s)
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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