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Lecture 2 - Ancient Scholarship

Lecture 2 - Pythagoras, Thales, and Triangulation

Lecture 3 - Celestial Motions

Lecture 4 - Measuring the Solar System

Lecture 5 - Timaeus

Lecture 6 - Aristotle

Lecture 7 - Ptolemy and Copernicus

Lecture 8 - Kepler

Lecture 8 - Kepler and Brahe

Lecture 9 - Notes on Galileo

Lecture 10 - Galileo

Lecture 11 - Galileo's Acceleration Experiment

Lectures 12 and 13 - Describing Motion

Lecture 13 - Galilean Relativity

Lecture 14 - Galileo on Scaling

Lecture 15 - Newton's Laws

Lecture 16 - Circular Motion

Lecture 17 - Gravitation

Lecture 18 - Energy


Lecture 19 - Light

Lecture 20 - Light II

Lecture 21 - Electromagnetism

Lecture 22 - Electromagnetism II

Lecture 23 - Relativity I

Lecture 24 - Relativity II

Lecture 25 - Relativity III

Lecture 26 - Relativity IV

Lecture 27 - Review Topics

Notes on Einstein


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