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Syllabus & Class
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| Tuesday, September 12 |
1 |
1 |
Counting
in Babylon |
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| Thursday, September 14 |
1 |
2 |
Early
Greek Science: Thales to Plato |
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| Tuesday, September 19 |
1 |
3 |
Motion
in the Heavens: Stars, Sun, Moon, Planets |
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| Thursday, September 21 |
2 |
4 |
Aristotle |
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| Tuesday, September 26 | 2 |
5 |
Measuring the Solar System | ||||||||
| Tuesday, September 26 |
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PROBLEM SET 1 DUE 11:59 PM |
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| Thursday, September 28 |
2 |
6 |
Greek Science After Aristotle |
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| Tuesday, October 3 |
3 |
7 |
Basic Ideas in Greek Mathematics |
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| Thursday, October 5 |
3 |
8 |
How the Greeks used Geometry to Understand the Stars |
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| Tuesday, October 10 | 3 |
9 |
Galileo and the Telescope | ||||||||
| Tuesday, October 10 |
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PROBLEM SET 2 DUE 11:59 PM |
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| Thursday, October 12 |
4 |
10 |
Life of Galileo |
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| Tuesday, October 17 |
4 |
11 |
Scaling:
why giants don't exist |
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| Thursday, October 19 |
4 |
12 |
Galileo's
Acceleration Experiment |
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| Tuesday, October 24 |
4 |
13 |
Naturally Accelerated Motion | ||||||||
| Tuesday, October 24 |
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PROBLEM SET 3 DUE 11:59 PM |
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| Wednesday October 25 - Tuesday
October 31 |
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MIDTERM EXAM | |||||||||
| Thursday, October 26 |
5 |
14 |
Describing Motion |
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| Tuesday, October 31 |
5 |
15 |
Tycho
Brahe and Johannes Kepler |
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| Thursday, November 2 |
5 |
16 |
Isaac Newton |
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| Tuesday, November 7 |
6 |
17 |
How Newton Built on Galileo's Ideas | ||||||||
| Tuesday, November 7 |
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PROBLEM SET 4 DUE 11:59 PM |
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| Thursday, November 9 |
6 |
18 |
The
Speed of Light |
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| Tuesday, November 14 |
6 |
19 |
The
Michelson-Morley Experiment |
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| Thursday, November 16 |
7 |
20 |
Special
Relativity |
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| Tuesnday, November 21 | 7 |
21 |
Special Relativity: What Time is it? | ||||||||
| Tuesday, November 21 |
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PROBLEM SET 5 DUE 11:59 PM |
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| Thursday, November 23 |
7 |
22 |
Special
Relativity: Synchronizing Clocks |
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| Tuesday, November 28 |
8 |
23 |
Time
Dilation: A Worked Example |
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| Thursday, November 30 |
8 |
24 |
More
Relativity: The Train and The Twins |
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| Tuesday, December 5 |
8 |
25 |
Momentum, Work and Energy |
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| Thursday, December 7 |
9 |
26 |
Adding Velocities: A Walk on the Train |
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| Tuesday, December 12 |
9 |
27 |
Conserving Momentum: the Relativistic Mass Increase |
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| Tuesday, December 12 |
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PROBLEM SET 6 DUE 11:59 PM |
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| Wednesday - Friday December 13 -
15 |
FINAL EXAM |
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