Physics 10/LS C70V Descriptive Introduction to Physics09:30-11:00 AM | 1 Pimentel Instructor Richard Muller Physics 10/LS C70V - Spring 2008 - The most interesting and important topics in physics, stressing conceptual understanding rather than math, with applications to current events. Topics covered may vary and may include energy and conservation, radioactivity, nuclear physics, the Theory of Relativity, lasers, explosions, earthquakes, superconductors, and quantum physics.
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09:30 AM - 11:00 AM PST | Classes begin 10 minutes after scheduled start time.
|  |  |  | Tue 1/22 | Energy, Power, and Explosions | | | | | Thu 1/24 | Oil, Coal, Batteries, Solar Cells, etc. | | | | | Tue 1/29 | Atoms and Heat - Thermal Expansion | | | | | Thu 1/31 | Engines and Refrigerators. Efficiency | | | | | Tue 2/5 | Gravity and Satellites. Weightlessness | | | | | Thu 2/7 | Orbits, Airplanes, Rockets, Balloons | | | | | Tue 2/12 | Radioactivity, Cancer, Dirty Bombs | | | | | Thu 2/14 | Plutonium, Fission, Fusion | | | | | Tue 2/19 | Chain Reactions, Critical Mass | | | | | Thu 2/21 | Nuclear Bombs, Reactors, Waste | | | | | Tue 2/26 | More Nukes | | | | | Thu 2/28 | Midterm - No Lecture | | | | | Tue 3/4 | Electricity and Magnetism | | | | | Thu 3/6 | Transformers, Superconductors, AC/DC | | | | | Tue 3/11 | Waves, UFOs, Roswell, Earthquakes | | | | | Thu 3/13 | Sound and Music | | | | | Tue 3/18 | Light, Information Theory, Vision | | | | | Thu 3/20 | Images, Lenses, Holograms, Polaroids | | | | | Tue 3/25 | Spring Break | | | | | Thu 3/27 | Spring Break | | | | | Tue 4/1 | Invisible Light: IR, UV, Spying | | | | | Thu 4/3 | X-rays, PET and CAT scans, MRI | | | | | Tue 4/8 | Global Warming. Greenhouse Effect | | | | | Thu 4/10 | Climate Change. Sea Level. Storms | | | | | Tue 4/15 | Film - No Webcast | | | | | Thu 4/17 | Midterm 2 - No Lecture | | | | | Tue 4/22 | Quantum Physics. Uncertainty. Lasers | | | | | Thu 4/24 | Transistors, Solar Cells, Xerox, Digital Photos | | | | | Tue 4/29 | Relativity. Time Dilation, Space Contraction | | | | | Thu 5/1 | E = mc^2. Antimatter. Tachyons. Causality | | | | | Tue 5/6 | The Universe. Planets, Galaxies, Wimps and Machos | | | | | Thu 5/8 | The Big Bang. Hubble Law, Dark Matter, Dark Energy (Video is lost in the last 10 minutes, but audio is fine) | | | | | Fri 5/16 | Final Review Part 1 - video captured by the Physics department | | | | | Fri 5/16 | Final Review Part 2 - video captured by the Physics department |
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