Tag: Education
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Historical Vs. Logical Order
One course I’m teaching this term is Modern Physics, which covers a diversity of topics in 20th century physics: relativity, basic quantum physics (atomic structure and spectra, fun stuff like the uncertainty principle), solid-state physics, and a bit of nuclear and particle physics. It’s a survey course, in other words—we don’t spend too long on…
Galileo's Pendulum 