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SCIENCE/PHYSICS 122

Topics and Reading Assignments

 

Topic

Class Notes chapters

Booth & Bloom pages

Speilberg & Anderson pages

PART 1: Beginnings

Introduction

1

3-4

1-4

Physical Science

2

163-171

4-10

Paradigms & Perception

3

N/A

N/A

Earth & Space

4

14-45

14
25-29

Beginnings

5

4-7

20-21

Pythagorean Mysticism

6

7-11

21-25

The Golden Age

7

7-11

29-30

Ptolemaic Astronomy

8

11-16

30-34

PART 2: Revolution

Darkness and Dawn

9

45-49

34-41

The New Astronomy

10

49-53

41-48

Kepler’s Laws

11

49-53

48-54

Describing Motion

12

97-99

60-71

Galileo: The First Scientist

13

93-102

43-44

The New Physics

14

102-109

71-80

Newton and The Laws

15

111-119

80-94

Part 3: Newtonian Paradigm

Gravity

16

122-125
127-131

96-101

Gravitation

17

132-139

101-105

Momentum & Conservation

18

119-122

125-127

94-95

Work & Energy

19

143-152

111-118

Temperature & Heat

20

175-183

148-149
151-152

Mechanical Heat

21

183-186

124-127
130-138

What is the Matter

22

223-224
226-227

N/A

PART 4: Atomic Paradigm

Alchemy

23

224-225

N/A

Skeptical Chemists

24

225-226
227-233

N/A

Chemistry & Atomic Theory

25

234-245

N/A

Kinetic Theory

26

189-218

127-130
138-140
149-151
152-154

Electrical Connections

27

298-313

200-218

Empty Atoms

28

319-330
374-409

260-298

Periodicity & Bonding

29

421-445
451-456

N/A

Entropy & Chaos

30

N/A

146-184

Laboratory Exercises

Measurements and Counting

Retrograde Motion

Describing Motion

Graphs and Kinematics

Freefall

Newton's 2d Law

Momentum & Conservation

Inverse Square

Gravity and Planetary Orbits

Work/Energy Theorem

Specific Heat

Absolute Zero

Chemical Symbols & Equations

The Periodic Table

Molecular Models