Physics

Course summary

Physics is crucial to understanding the world around us. It challenges our imaginations with concepts like relativity and string theory, and leads to great discoveries, like computers and lasers, that lead to technologies which change our lives—from healing joints, to curing cancer and developing sustainable energy solutions. Physics encompasses the study of the universe from the largest galaxies to the smallest subatomic particles. Moreover, it’s the basis of many other sciences, including chemistry, oceanography, seismology, and astronomy (and can be applied to biology or medical science). Physics asks and answers questions covering the whole range from the sub-atomically tiny to the mind bogglingly big!