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Mechanica Universe
Video:
`Introduction'
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Here's a listing of the
subject areas covered in this video. We will concentrate in this course
on areas 2, 10, and 12, but will also discuss areas 5 and 13 for sure and
may get to areas 1 and 9.
1. Cosmology
- Copernicas - Heliocentrism
- Kepler - 3 Laws of
Planetary Motion
- Galileo - Law of Falling
Bodies
2. Mechanics
- Newton - 3 Laws of Motion
-- one of which is the Law of Inertia; Law of Universal Gravitation
3. Angular Momentum
4. Harmonic Motion (measurement
of time)
5. Importance of Mathematics
in Physics (Leibniz vs. Newton & invension of the calculus)
6. Scientific Method
7. Electrostatics
- Robert Millikan -- first
measured the charge on the electron
8. Light - speed constant,
a fundamental constant of nature
9. G - universal gravitational
constant
- Cavendish - first measured
G and alho also weighted the Earth
10. Conservation of Momentum
- Descartes - first used and
also invented analytic geometry
11. Scientists as Explorers
12. Conservation of Energy
- Joule - given credit for
finally articulating this principle (not the first)
13. Vector Analysis
14. Resonance
15. Space Navigators - celestial
motions.
Questions or comments
should be addressed to Mike Ritzwoller at ritzwoller@phys-geophys.colorado.edu
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