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Session
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Lecture Notes |
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Textbook Uncommon Sense
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Textbook Sidereus Nuncius
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Textbook
Two New Sciences
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Textbook Relativity
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Sep 06
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Thu
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1
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Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Counting in Babylon
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Chpts 1-4
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Sep 11 |
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Tue
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2
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Chapter 2 Counting in Babylon
Chapter 3 Early
Greek Science: Thales to Plato
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Chpts 1-4
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Sep 13
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Thu
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3
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Chapter 3 Early
Greek Science: Thales to Plato
Chapter 4 Motion
in the Heavens: Stars, Sun, Moon, Planets
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Chpts 5-7
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Sep 18
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Tue
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4
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Chapter 2 Counting in Babylon
Chapter 4
Motion in the Heavens
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Chpts 5-7
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Sep 20
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Thu
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5
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Chapter 5 Aristotle
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Chpts 8-10
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Introduction Pages 1-24
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Sep 25
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Tue
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6
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Chapter 6 Measuring the Solar System |
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Chpts 8-10
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Sidereus Nuncius Pages 25-86
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Sep 25 |
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PROBLEM SET 1 DUE
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Sep 27
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Thu
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7
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Chapter 7
Greek Science after Aristotle
Chapter 8 Basic Ideas in Greek Mathematics |
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Chpts 8-10
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Sidereus Nuncius Pages 25-86
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Oct 02
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Tue
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8
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Chapter 9
How
the Greeks used Geometry to Understand the Stars
Chapter 10 How Classsicla Knowledge Reached Baghdad |
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Chpts 8-10
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Conclusion Pages 87-113
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Oct 04
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Thu
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9
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Chapter 11 Later Islamic Science |
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First Day Pages 1-50
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Oct 09
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Tue
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10
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Chapter 12 Galileo and the Telescope
Chapter 13 Life
of Galileo |
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First Day Pages 51-104
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Oct 09
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PROBLEM SET 2
DUE
11:59 PM |
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Oct 11
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Thu
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11
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Chapter 13 Life of Galileo
Chapter 14
Scaling:
Why Giants Don't Exist
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Second Day Pages 105-146
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Oct 16
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Tue
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12
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Chapter 15 Galileo's Acceleration Experiment
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Third Day Pages 147-233
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Oct 18
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Thu
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13
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Chapter 15 Galilelo's Acceleration Experiment |
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Fourth Day Pages 234-282
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Oct 23
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Tue
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14
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Chapter 15 Galileo's Acceleration Experiment
Chapter 16 Naturally Accelerated Motion |
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Oct 23
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PROBLEM SET 3
DUE
11:59 PM |
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Wed Oct 24 12:01 PM - Tues Oct 30 7:00 PM
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MIDTERM EXAM |
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Oct 25
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Thu
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15
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Chapter 16 Naturally Accelerated Motion
Chapter 17 Using vectors to Describe Motion
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Oct 30
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Tue
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16
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Chapter 17 Using Vectors to describe Motion
Chapter 18
Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler |
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Nov 1
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Thu
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17
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Chapter 18 Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler
Chapter 19 Isaac Newton
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Nov 6
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Tue
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18
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Chapter 20 How Newton Built on Galileo's Idea's
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Part 1 Section 1-3
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Nov 6
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PROBLEM SET 4
DUE
11:59 PM |
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Nov 8
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Thu
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19
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Chapter 20 How Newton Built on Galileo's Ideas
Chapter 21 The Speed of Light
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Part 1 Section 4-6
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Nov 13 |
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Tue
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20
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Chapter 22 The Michelson-Morely Experiment
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Part 1 Section 7-9
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Nov 15
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Thu
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21
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Chapter 23 Special Relativity
Chapter 24
Special
Relativity: What Time is it? |
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Part 1 Section 10-12
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Nov 20
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Tue
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22
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Chapter 25 Special Relativity: Synchronizing Clocks
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Part 1 Section 13-15
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Nov 20
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PROBLEM SET 5
DUE
11:59 PM |
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Nov 22
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Thu
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23
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Chapter 25 Special Relativity: Synchronizing Clocks
Chapter 26 Time Dilation: A Worked Example
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Part 1 Section 16
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Nov 27
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Tue
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24
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Chapter 27 More Relativity: The Train and The Twins
Chapter 28 Momentum, Work, and Energy
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Appendix 1
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Nov 29
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Thu
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25
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Chapter 28
Momentum,
Work and Energy
Chapter 29 Adding Velocities: A Walk on the Train |
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Dec 4
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Tue
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26
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Chapter 30 Conserving Momentum: The Relativistic Mass Increase
Chapter 31 General Relativity
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Dec 4
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Tue
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PROBLEM SET 6 DUE 11:59 PM |
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Dec 5
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Wed
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CELESTIAL JOURNAL DUE 11:59 PM |
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Wed December 5 Noon - Wed December 12 7:00 PM
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FINAL EXAM |
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