motion
When I was in college, all freshman engineering majors took the same courses: calculus, chemistry, physics, etc. Some of college physics was the same as high school physics: Newtonian physics, f=m times a (Newton's second law of motion). Distance=speed times time. Some of college chemistry was the same as high school chemistry--that all matter is composed of basic elements found in the periodic table. In atomic physics we learned that atoms are the basic particles of all chemical elements. Atoms consist of a nucleus of protons and generally neutrons, and surrounding the nucleus are orbiting electrons. In physics we studied Einstein's theory of relativity, f=m times c squared, where matter can be converted into energy, and vice versa, separated by the HUGE constant of the speed of light squared. In my second year civil engineering students took courses in statics and dynamics. Everything in our world involves motion--even those objects that we call "static". For examp...
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