PHYS103

This course fulfills the General Education category Scientific Reasoning. Our contemporary culture faces increasing distrust in scientific principles. Only citizens with basic scientific sensibility can grapple with the complexity, diversity, and change they will face A study ofthe motion and physical properties of bodies of the solar system and the nature and structure ofgalaxies is made. Areas covered include: an historical background, the sun as a star, the properties of light, the apparent motion ofcelestial bodies, evolution of stars, nebulae and pulsars & black holes, comets and meteors, astronomical instruments, quasars, and cosmology and life in the universe.