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2021-2022 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

PHY 132 - Introduction to Astronomy

Credits: 3

An introductory survey of astronomy covering astrophysical principles and their historical development in a simple quantitative manner. Planets, moons, the solar system, stars, nebula, galaxies, black holes, quasars, dark matter and energy, relativity and spacetime, and the universe as a whole will be covered.