| Introduction
Physics addresses the material universe at its most fundamental
levels. The laws revealed by careful study and experiment
should apply from subatomic to cosmological scales. With currently-understood
physical law and mathematics as a foundation, the goals of
physics are to push to still deeper levels of understanding
and to push upward, extending our understanding to more complicated
systems: molecules, fluids, solids, galaxies, living things.
Concentrating in physics at UWI will not only teach you about
the structure of physical law, but it will allow you to take
part in its discovery. Along the way you will learn to "think
like a physicist" -- a hard-to-describe skill combining
practiced intuition, the scientific method, and a knack for
approximation -- and you will develop powerful, broadly-applicable
problem-solving skills.
Physics majors are prepared not only for a career in physics,
but many other fields as well. Physics alumni may be found
in academic and industrial physics research positions as well
as consulting, medicine, law, teaching, biotechnology, and
engineering careers.
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