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Newtonian Gravity up Close and in Context
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Sunil P
7 Hours
7 LESSONS
Course Overview
Course Content
7 Hours Total Length
Historical Background: Aristotle’s Theory of Gravity, Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy, Descartes’ Theory of Gravity
Newtonian Gravity: Newton's Theory and its Reception
Newtonian Gravity: Modes of Scientific Explanation
Inverse-Square Laws: The Newton and Coulomb Force Laws, Why Inverse-Square?
The Victory of Newtonian Gravity: Observational Vindication, Modes of Scientific Explanation, Redux
The Eclipse of Newtonian Gravity: Locality in Physics, Introduction to Einstein's General Relativity
The Eclipse of Newtonian Gravity: Observational Vindication of General Relativity, General Relativity and Quantum Electrodynamics
KEY SKILLS
Nature of Scientific Enquiry
Heuristic Arguments
Combining Science and History
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