Syllabus

Class Presentations--Some Guidelines

Class Presentations Schedule

Mid-term Examination Study Questions

Final Examination Study Questions

Miscellaneous Linsk: Einstein on the Relationship between Philosophy and Physics Ptolemaic System -- Illustrations and Animations More Helpful Images and Animations The Copernican Explanation of Retrograde Motion at Opposition Don Howard. "Albert Einstein as a Philosopher of Science." Physics Today 58, no 12 (Dec. 2005), 34-40. A Guide to Raphael's "The School of Athens."

Galileo and the Church Links: Cardinal Paul Poupard. "Galileo: Report on Papal Commission Findings." John Paul II. "Lessons of the Galileo Case."

Cavendish Balance and Eötvös Experiement Links: Nice Illustration of the Cavendish Balance Good Analysis of the Cavendish Balance A Bit More Detail on Eötvös A Recent Experimental Test Proposed by Glashow et al.

Class Presentations: Bernardino and Collado on Galileo Pearl on Newton's Principia Fox on Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation Robinson and Henkels on Galileo's Letter to the Grand Duchess Dolan on Models of the Aether Walker and Zerr on Maxwell & Michelson-Morley Huml and McCormick on the Kaufmann Experiments Makielski and Salvador on the Essentials of Special Relativity D'Auria and Chu on Further Consequences of Einstein's Postulates Johnston on General Relativity and the Expanding Universe Bryant and Staron on The Road to Quantum Mechanics Kurtz on EPR and Bell's Theorem