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