Undergraduate Academic Catalog 2024-2025 
    
    Oct 08, 2024  
Undergraduate Academic Catalog 2024-2025

PHYS 160 - Space Science

Credits 3
Introduction to the fundamental principles of space science, including the solar system, its components and its origins, and stellar evolution and cosmology. Emphasis will be placed on prominent themes such as Newton's laws of motion and gravitation, conservation of energy, conservation of angular momentum, Doppler shifts, the fundamental nature of matter, fusion reactions and nucleosynthesis and general relativity.