Qualitative Science email? Physics with no maths! (1 Viewer)

[stazi]

Apparently arts kids got an email about qualitative science.
Can someone post it on here. Sounds really fucking brilliant

 

[acmilan]

It sounded alright until it came to the 3 1500 word essays:

Please take the time to read this outline of a new Physics course.


PHYSICS WITHOUT MATHS !!!

Have you ever wondered about ...

Quantum Mechanics and the weird world of the very small?
What light really is and how we perceive the universe?
Global warming and climate change - what can we really do?

This email outlines a new and exciting non-mathematical Arts course
being given in the School of Physics in second semester 2005:

Concepts and Issues in Physical Science (CIPS), PHYS 1600

This course will cover some of the pivotal scientific ideas that shape our
current world-view, our major technologies, together with some key social
issues at the interface with science. In a world where science increasingly
has important impacts on everyday life, the insights from this course will
give
give you a new appreciation of science, without the burden of any mathematics.


Course components:

· The Quantum World: The quantum revolution began in 1900
and is continuing rapidly today. The part of the course examines the
evolution and status of the radical quantum ideas that have reshaped
our view of the world and that are now the foundation of much of today's
technology.

· Light, Perception, and Communication: Light is our primary
means of sensing our surroundings. Learn how studies of light by Newton,
Maxwell, Einstein, and others led to some of the greatest revolutions in
human thought, and to huge changes in society.

· Climate Change: Human activities are changing the global
environment, possibly irreversibly. Learn how global warming comes
about, what we can do to influence it, how we might respond to climate
change, and the implications of these for the economy and our way of life.


Course features and organisation:

· No HSC or University science or mathematics assumed.

· A Junior level, 6 credit point course, aimed at students with an
interest
in the natural world.

· Offered in the Faculty of Arts, but available to students in
Liberal Studies,
Economics, Law, and all other faculties (including Science) for
credit as for
other Arts courses (it's a Table B course as in the Arts Handbook)

· 2 lectures and 1 tutorial per week, with assessment by three 1500
word essays and a 2 hour open-book exam

· Lectures and seminars are held in the Physics Building

For further information please email cips@physics.usyd.edu.au

 

[acmilan]

From the sounds of it, it will be like HSC Physics except with even less maths. Especially the first two course components

 

[stazi]

maybe those essays will be research based (as in copy and paste from here)

 

[acmilan]

Either way, the thought of re-doing a hsc physics type unit isnt really appealing

 

[Phanatical]

I don't need any more junior credit points. Otherwise I'd do it.

 

[stazi]

Either way, the thought of re-doing a hsc physics type unit isnt really appealing

but it has no maths and it sounds interesting.
Not sure if i can fit it in though

 

[absolution*]

Physics without maths is like sex without orgasm. Whats the fucking point?

 

[stazi]

for personal enrichment. so you can understand how we perceive the world around us. because we didnt do maths in yr 11/12

 

[011]

That sounds like teh roq.

 

[acmilan]

The Quantum World: The quantum revolution began in 1900
and is continuing rapidly today. The part of the course examines the
evolution and status of the radical quantum ideas that have reshaped
our view of the world and that are now the foundation of much of today's
technology.

This sounds almost identical to an option topic in HSC physics. It would be seriously an interesting topic to learn for those with little or no background education on the topic.