July 10, 2017 - August 20, 2017

Throughout history, people have grappled with fundamental questions about the physical origin, workings, and behavior of the universe. This course explores our changing comprehension of motion, time, space, and matter through the ideas of the ancient Greek philosophers, Galileo, Newton, and Einstein. You'll learn how physicists measure mass, weight, and the speed of light, and how these basic measures relate to the nature of time, thermodynamics, Einstein's theories, and the wider social sphere.