Syllabus for Spring 2009
How to Keep a
Good Journal
First Discussion Paper (Due Friday, January 30)
Second Discussion Paper (Due Friday, March 6)
Third Discussion Paper (Due Friday, April 3)
Fourth Discussion Paper (Due Monday, May 4)
Special
Relativity (Helpful presentation of Lorentz transformations, length
contraction, time dilation, etc.)
Course packet for Physics 20061
(Courtesy of Professor Michael Wiescher)
Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist
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Supplementary Slides
The Russell-Einstein Manifesto
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty 1968
Pope Benedict's World Day of Peace Message 2006 "In Truth, Peace"
(see especially paragraphs 13 and 14)
Father John Siemes's Statement on the Bombing of Hiroshima
A Selective Nuclear Weapons Bibliography
Copenhagen,
the Play
Immanuel Kant,
"What Is Enlightenment?" (1784)
Immanuel
Kant, "Was ist Aufklärung?" (1784)
Lectures by and about Hans Bethe
Merton's Social Norms of Science (1942)
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