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Week Ten - Time Scales
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.
Week Nine - Electricity and Magnetism
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.
Week Eight - Orbits
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”
Week Seven - Relativity
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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