Lecture 1 - Tuesday, 10 January 2012

Chapters 1 and 3 - Sections 1.1, 1.6, 1.8, 3.1, 3.2

• Course overview and information
• An invitation to science
• Pseudoscience
• Aristotelian physics

Powerpoint Slides

Note: These slides do not include all material presented in class - additional material was presented on the blackboard and in demonstrations.

PDF Format - 1 slide per page

PDF Format - 6 slides per page

Supplementary Material

• Today's demonstrations: (i) Falling book, paper, and balls; (ii) Sliding book and ball.

• Apollo 15 Hammer and Feather Experiment http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a15/video15.html#closeout3
  I showed the MPEG Video Clip (49 seconds; 6.4MB) by Kipp Teague, but the other formats also work.

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