Calculus-based core physics course serving as an introduction to space physics. The course includes an introduction to orbital mechanics, electricity and magnetism, and optics. The course is designed to promote scientific literacy of the physics principles governing the space domain to translate space-based effects into operational impacts. All topics will build an understanding of the capabilities, limitations, and vulnerabilities of space-based assets available to the modern warfighter. Additionally, an integrated laboratory program illustrates basic scientific techniques and serves to stimulate intellectual curiosity through discovery laboratories related to these military space assets. This core physics course is designed to demonstrate the relevance of physics to military space-based technology and to help prepare future Army leaders to anticipate and adapt to technological change.
