"Navigating
the Universe" is an Intellectual history of physics,
presented with an emphasis on how we learned to observe
and eventually abstract to the mathematical patterns
which guide the physical world.
The course is a lecture format with readings which accompany the topics. We'll follow the development of physics historically, but with an interlude on the attempts to try to understand what kind of knowledge this "science" is.
Professor: Raymond Brock
Office: 3210 BPS
Phone: 3-1693
email: chipclass@pa.msu.edu
AIM IM: chipbrock@mac.com
The grade is determined by four major efforts:
The course is a lecture format with readings which accompany the topics. We'll follow the development of physics historically, but with an interlude on the attempts to try to understand what kind of knowledge this "science" is.
Instructor:
Professor: Raymond Brock
Office: 3210 BPS
Phone: 3-1693
email: chipclass@pa.msu.edu
AIM IM: chipbrock@mac.com
The grade is determined by four major efforts:
| weekly journals | 30% |
| book review | 15% |
| project | 15% |
| midterm | 15% |
| final | 15% |
| instructors | 10% |