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This course offers a broad overview of the fundamental ideas of modern physics: mechanics, space, time, relativity, quantum mechanics, and quantum field theory, up to general relativity and the Standard Model of particle physics. The course will be descriptive but equation-based, including explicit details about the foundational equations of the theories discussed. The goal will be to understand the meaning of those equations and the concepts they represent, rather than to gain facility in manipulating and solving the equations. This course is aimed at non-physics majors