What do physicists do. What do scientists do.

 

Connection between Physics of the sky and Physics of the Earth. Ancient astronomy and Ptolomaic theory. Copernicus. Tycho Brahe and Kepler. The telescope and what did it change. Moon observations. The medicean stars. Phases of planets.

 

Some ideas of atomistic matter.

 

The Physics of Aristotle. How do we measure motion. What Galileo did and did not understand. Motion along a straight line. Velocity. Acceleration. Free fall. Motion in a plane. Projectile motion. Circular motion. Relative motion.

 

Newton's Laws. Force. Mass and Weight. Inertia and Galileo's notion of inertia. Friction.

 

Kepler's laws. Harmonia Mundi. The apple and the moon. Why an ellipse.

 

Death of a star, black holes and other crazy stuff.

 

Work and Kinetic Energy. Power. Conservative Forces and Potential Energy. Energy Conservation and energy transformation.

 

Some notions about the motion of massive objects. Center of Mass. Linear momentum. Rotational Kinematics. Rotational energy. Moment of inertia.

 

Basic laws of geometric optics. How do telescopes work. Interference phenomena.

 

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