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Week Ten - Time Scales

  • Posted by fisher
  • November 27, 2006

This week, we think about different time scales: atomic, cosmological, sub-atomic, geological and human. We also think about how to make your computer go faster. Music: There from James Bond, “Only You” and “Kawika” from The Sunday Manoa.

 
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Week Nine - Electricity and Magnetism

  • Posted by fisher
  • November 20, 2006

Electricity and Magnetism (Van der Graff)Not nearly enough about E&M, based on Prucell. Electrostatics, relation of E, B and relativity, waves and circuits. Music: “Now’s the Time” by Charlie Parker, “Ashokan Farewell” by Fiddle Fever.

 
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Week Eight - Orbits

  • Posted by fisher
  • November 13, 2006

Galileo made a telescope and saw the moons orbiting Jupiter and physics started. Then came Huygens and Kepler, Newton and Leibniz tried to cheat each other, Newton shafted Halley and mechanics was born.

    Music: 

  • Franz Schubert, “The Trout, Death and the Maiden”
  • Leonard Cohen, “The Future”
 
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Week Seven - Relativity

  • Posted by fisher
  • November 6, 2006

The basic ideas of the Special Theory of Relativity: Einstein’s two big ideas, the Lorentz Transformations, relativistic kinematics and how to remember the signs.

 
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