I finally have the TI-83 programs online. I’ve only posted four, but two of those are exceptional programs that will make your life much easier. If you have a great program that you’d like to share with the class, please tell me about it and I’ll make it available online. Happy Calculating!
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I’ve started to make available the handouts and classwork assignments that we’ve had so far this semester. I’ll try to continue posting handouts for future units as they are distributed in class.
The “Vitiate Vexing Vectors” project directions are also included on the classwork section. Also listed are the Galileo Research Paper directions.
Hey everyone,
I know the formatting of the online grade report needs work. To explain my odd formatting I offer this explanation: I recycled my code from last year to our new site. I’m working on a format solution, but in the mean time you can print your grade reports from the website. Once you log in to view your grades, look for the link at the bottom of the page.
I hope that helps!
p.s. The curve calculator is not running yet. That may take me a while to develop as I have more pressing issues.
Grades are now online. Please select a password and resubmit it so that I can get those entered into the computer. Grades and passwords will be updated online every Thursday for the remainder of the semester.
Homework, Labs, and Class Notes are now online. You can now download the lab manual, homework guide, and other items from the class website. I also uploaded a set of class notes. Not every unit is currently covered, but the ones that are online may be helpful to some of you. Note: Unit 4 is provided in two sections.
The class syllabus and class work is coming soon.
Enjoy!
Hey everyone,
Online grades will be available starting Monday. In class on Monday I’ll be handing out your user name and the password that you selected. Please forward that information to your parents as they may be interested in seeing how you’re doing in Physics.
Have a great weekend!
Intro
The scientific revolution which begun from the late 16th century can be viewed as a flowering of the Reformation & Renaissance and the portal to modern civilization. This was in part brought about by the rediscovery of those elements of ancient Greek, Indian, Chinese and Islamic culture preserved and further developed by the Islamic world from the 8th to the 15th centuries, and translated by Christian monks into Latin, such as the Almagest. It started with only a few researchers, evolving into an enterprise which continues to the present day. Starting with astronomy, the principles of natural philosophy crystallized into fundamental laws of physics which were enunciated and improved in the succeeding centuries. By the 19th century, the sciences had segmented into multiple fields with specialized researchers and the field of physics, although logically pre-eminent, no longer could claim sole ownership of the entire field of scientific research.
16th century
In the 16th century Nicolaus Copernicus revived Aristarchus’ heliocentric model of the solar system in Europe (which survived primarily in a passing mention in The Sand Reckoner of Archimedes). When this model was published at the end of his life, it was with a preface by Andreas Osiander that piously represented it as only a mathematical convenience for calculating the positions of planets, and not an account of the true nature of the planetary orbits. In England William Gilbert (1544-1603) studied magnetism and published a seminal work, De Magnete (1600), in which he thoroughly presented his numerous experimental results.
17th century
In the early 17th century Johannes Kepler formulated a model of the solar system based upon the five Platonic solids, in an attempt to explain why the orbits of the planets had the relative sizes they did. His access to extremely accurate astronomical observations by Tycho Brahe enabled him to determine that his model was inconsistent with the observed orbits. After a heroic seven-year effort to more accurately model the motion of the planet Mars (during which he laid the foundations of modern integral calculus) he concluded that the planets follow not circular orbits, but elliptical orbits with the Sun at one focus of the ellipse. This breakthrough overturned a millennium of dogma based on Ptolemy’s idea of “perfect” circular orbits for the “perfect” heavenly bodies. Kepler then went on to formulate his three laws of planetary motion. He also proposed the first known model of planetary motion in which a force emanating from the Sun deflects the planets from their “natural” motion, causing them to follow curved orbits.
Today
Attempts to unify quantum mechanics and general relativity made significant progress during the 1990s. At the close of the century, a Theory of everything was still not in hand, but some of its characteristics were taking shape. String theory, loop quantum gravity and black hole thermodynamics all predicted quantized spacetime on the Planck scale. A number of new efforts to understand the physical world arose in the last half of the twentiety century that generated widespread interest: fractals and scaling, self-organized criticality, complexity and chaos, power laws and noise, networks, non-equilibrium thermodynamics, sandpiles, nanotechnology, cellular automata and the anthropic principle were only a few of these important topics.
–source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_physics