{"id":5258,"date":"2016-06-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.hmc.edu\/physics\/2016\/06\/16\/what-physics-is-in-the-hmc-core\/"},"modified":"2016-06-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T07:00:00","slug":"what-physics-is-in-the-hmc-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/2016\/06\/16\/what-physics-is-in-the-hmc-core\/","title":{"rendered":"What physics is in the HMC Core?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"page-featured-image\" class=\"wp-block-image is-style-alignleft\" data-pic=\"picture-090.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2023\/02\/picture-090.jpg\" alt=\"Promotional image for news: What physics is in the HMC Core?\" data-pic=\"picture-090.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Core physics begins with <em>Special Relativity<\/em>, which beautifully illustrates how careful reasoning from simple premises can teach you an incredible amount about how the world actually works\u201a\u00c4\u00eeeven if it isn\u2019t especially intuitive. It continues with <em>Mechanics<\/em> in the second semester, and concludes with <em>Electricity, Magnetism, &amp; Quantum Optics<\/em> in the third. In addition, there is a one-semester physics laboratory course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Core physics begins with Special Relativity, which beautifully illustrates how careful reasoning from simple premises can teach you an incredible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-unique"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}