Lecture 1 - Tuesday, 8 January 2013

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.

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Supplementary Material

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

• Suggested reading: The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie Angier (Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007), particularly the first four chapters

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