PHY 1000 Concepts in Physics
In this course we will learn about five major conceptual paradigms in physics: the heliocentric solar system, electromagnetism, relativity, quantum mechanics, and big bang cosmology. We will learn about them through the original writings of the people who helped discover them, including Aristotle, Galileo, Newton, Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, Schrodinger, Hubble, and Weinberg. We will see the modern human understanding of physics unfold in the great debates presented in these writings.