RaySociety (Drake)
        Class being taught by Sam Wormley - Fall 2007

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RaySociety (Drake)
Voyages of Discovery: Copernicus to the Big Bang - Part I     4 wks
   September 2007           October 2007
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa    Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 
                   1        1  2  3  4  5  6
 2  3  4  5  6  7  8     7  8  9 10 11 12 13
 9 10 11 12 13 14 15    14 15 16 17 18 19 20
16 17 18 19 20 21 22    21 22 23 24 25 26 27
23 24 25 26 27 28 29    28 29 30 31
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In 1543, Nicolas Copernicus published, "On the Revolutions of
Heavenly Spheres", which began the first of three revolutions
in cosmology. This is where we begin our four week course--
learning about some of the major players, that brought us into
the 20th Century.


Nicolas Copernicus
  o The Ptolemaic System
  o The Copernican Principle

Tycho & Kepler
  o The Science of Observation
  o The Kepler's Three Laws - MU-21 
  o Harmonies of the World - Cosmos #3
  
Isaac Newton & the Kepler Problem
  o The Kepler Problem - MU-22
  o The Rise of the Mechanical Universe 
  o Inertia (Galileo) - MU-4 
       
Miraculous Year (1905)
  o The beginnings of Relativity
  o The Beginnings of the Quantum Mechanics
  o From Kepler to Einstein - MU-25 





 

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