ISP209 Fall 2005 Reading Assignments
| Date: | Topics: | Reading Assignment | HW Assignment Due |
| 8-30 (Tuesday) | Course Introduction | Syllabus | |
| 9-1 (Thursday) | What is time? | 1 | |
| 9-6 (Tuesday) | Space, units, scalers, vectors, tensors | 2 | HW#1 |
| 9-8 (Thursday) | What is force? | 3 | |
| 9-13 (Tuesday) | Gravity, Motion and Orbits | 4 | |
| 9-15 (Thursday) | Special and General Relativity | 5 | |
| 9-20 (Tuesday) | Certainty or Uncertainty /COSMOS (films) | 6 | HW#2 |
| 9-22 (Thursday) | Einstein and E=mc2 | see lecture notes | |
| 9-27 (Tuesday) | Electricity and Magnetism | 7 | HW#3 |
| 9-29 (Thursday) | Circuits, semiconductors, superconductors | 8 | |
| 10-4 (Tuesday) | Exam #1 Review | Review 1 | HW#4 |
| 10-6 (Thursday) | Exam #1 | ||
| 10-11 (Tuesday) | The birth and death of stars | 9 | |
| 10-13 (Thursday) | Life in the Universe: Aliens | 10 | |
| 10-18 (Tuesday) | Atoms and Nuclei | 11 | HW#5,HW#6 |
| 10-20 (Thursday) | Strong and Weak Forces | 12 | |
| 10-25 (Tuesday) | What is matter? What is mass? | 13 | HW#7 |
| 10-27 (Thursday) | Strings, Dimensions, and other Stuff | 14 | |
| 11-1 (Tuesday) | Exam #2 Review | Review 2 | HW#8 |
| 11-3 (Thursday) | EXAM #2 | ||
| 11-8 (Tuesday) | Films - The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene | 15 | |
| 11-10 (Thursday) | Films - The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene | ||
| 11-15 (Tuesday) | The Big Bang | 16 | HW#9 |
| 11-17 (Thursday) | Black holes, wormholes, and the future | 17 | |
| 11-22 (Tuesday) | Astrology, mystics, magic | 18 | HW#10 |
| 11-24 (Thursday) | Holiday - no class | ||
| 11-29 (Tuesday) | Dark Matter and Dark Energy | 19 | HW#11 |
| 12-1 (Thursday) | Particle Accelerators: The large microscopes | ||
| 12-6 (Tuesday) | Exam #3 Review | Review 3 | |
| 12-8 (Thursday) | Exam #3 | ||
| 12-13 (Tuesday) | FINAL EXAM 10 am to noon | all course material | Location: BPS1410 |