NW 264 - Explorations into Astrophysics

Min Units: 5
Max Units: 5
Introduction to physics through astronomical inspirations. By hands-on lab experimentation, students study periodic motion, sound waves, and optical phenomena. The notions are applied to the ideas of modern astrophysics including celestial motion, properties and evolution of stars, detection of exoplanets, dark matter and energy. Four lecture periods and two hours of laboratory per week. (U) Annually, term varies