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Syllabus & Class Schedule
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Date |
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CD
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Lecture
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Subject |
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Unused
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Unused
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Tuesday, September 11
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1
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1
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Counting
in Babylon
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Thursday, September 13 |
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1
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2
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Early
Greek Science: Thales to Plato
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Tuesday, September 18
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1
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3
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Motion
in the Heavens: Stars, Sun, Moon, Planets
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Thursday, September 20
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2
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4
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Aristotle
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Tuesday, September 25 |
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2
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5
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Measuring
the Solar System |
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Tuesday, September 25
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PROBLEM SET 1 DUE
11:59 PM |
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Thursday, September 27
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2
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6
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Greek
Science After Aristotle |
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Tuesday, October 2
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3
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7
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Basic
Ideas in Greek Mathematics |
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Thursday, October 4
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3
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8
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How
the Greeks used Geometry to Understand the Stars |
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Tuesday, October 9 |
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3
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9
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Galileo
and the Telescope |
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Tuesday, October 9
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PROBLEM SET 2
DUE
11:59 PM |
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Thursday, October 11
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4
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10
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Life
of Galileo |
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Tuesday, October 16
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4
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11
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Scaling:
why giants don't exist
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Thursday, October 18
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4
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12
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Galileo's
Acceleration Experiment
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Tuesday, October 23
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4
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13
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Naturally
Accelerated Motion |
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Tuesday, October 23
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PROBLEM SET 3
DUE
11:59 PM |
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Wednesday October 24 - Tuesday
October 30
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MIDTERM EXAM |
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Thursday, October 25
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5
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14
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Describing
Motion |
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Tuesday, October 30
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5
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15
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Tycho
Brahe and Johannes Kepler
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Thursday, November 1
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5
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16
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Isaac
Newton |
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Tuesday, November 6
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6
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17
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How
Newton Built on Galileo's Ideas |
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Tuesday, November 6
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PROBLEM SET 4
DUE
11:59 PM |
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Thursday, November 8 |
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6
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18
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The
Speed of Light
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Tuesday, November 13 |
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6
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19
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The
Michelson-Morley Experiment
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Thursday, November 15 |
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7
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20
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Special
Relativity
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Tuesday, November 20 |
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7
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21
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Special
Relativity: What Time is it? |
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Thursday, November 22
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7
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22
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Special
Relativity: Synchronizing Clocks
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Tuesday, November 27
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8
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23
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Time
Dilation: A Worked Example
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Wednesday, November 28
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PROBLEM SET 5
DUE
7:00 AM |
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Thursday, November 29
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8
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24
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More
Relativity: The Train and The Twins
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Tuesday, December 4
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8
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25
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Momentum,
Work and Energy |
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Thursday, December 6
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26
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Adding
Velocities: A Walk on the Train |
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Tuesday, December 11
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27
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Conserving
Momentum: the Relativistic Mass Increase |
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Tuesday, December 11
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PROBLEM SET 6 DUE 11:59 PM |
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Wednesday - Friday December 12 -
14
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FINAL EXAM |
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