Physics & Astronomy

In this course we will explore how the fields of extragalactic astronomy and cosmology emerged and continue to evolve, and will touch on many of the big unanswered questions in these fields

Newtonian Synthesis is a major intellectual development of the seventeenth century. We'll explore the implications of this synthesis by combining Newton’s dynamical laws with his Law of Universal Gravitation.

We'll investigate vector and tensor fields, study geometric ideas (geodesics, parallel transport, and covariant differentiation), and present the Principle of Equivalence as the central physical principle behind Einstein's theory of gravity.