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Cover three centuries of brilliant thinkers as an award-winning professor takes you step by step through landmark concepts in physics.

Syllabus

01: The Great Ideas of Classical Physics
02: Describing Motion - A Break from Aristotle
03: Describing Ever More Complex Motion
04: Astronomy as a Bridge to Modern Physics
05: Isaac Newton - The Dawn of Classical Physics
06: Newton Quantified - Force and Acceleration
07: Newton and the Connections to Astronomy
08: Universal Gravitation
09: Newton's Third Law
10: Conservation of Momentum
11: Beyond Newton - Work and Energy
12: Power and the Newtonian Synthesis
13: Further Developments - Static Electricity
14: Electricity, Magnetism, and Force Fields
15: Electrical Currents and Voltage
16: The Origin of Electric and Magnetic Fields
17: Unification I - Maxwell's Equations
18: Unification II - Electromagnetism and Light
19: Vibrations and Waves
20: Sound Waves and Light Waves
21: The Atomic Hypothesis
22: Energy in Systems - Heat and Thermodynamics
23: Heat and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
24: The Grand Picture of Classical Physics
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Steven Pollock

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