Sketching podcast

Today's lecture on campus was highly appropriate to you Albert Einstein learning module. It is all about sketching in exercises 1, 2 and 3 of Ch. 17. I set up its visual podcast this afternoon. It has all the sketches from my lecture embedded in the visual track. You will find it on the lectures side of the Uvision website.

Also, I have set up links to the four large scan files, 700 x 540 pixels. Click on each image below to open out the large size file.

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Enjoy!

Concept guide for LIGHT is now available.

The first of three concept guides, "Light," is now available in the Albert Einstein learning module.

GO FOR IT!!

What's ahead

Main grade-related events from here on out are:

1. Midterm 3, over the concepts in the Albert Einstein learning module
2. Final exam, Dec. 8th (noon-11:55 PM).

The main concept guide for the Albert Einstein learning module is due for activation on Saturday.

Biographical blurb file

The Albert Einstein learning module includes some biographical reading, because relativity theory and quantum theory developed around Albert Einstein as one of the central figures. In our Webcourses learning module, I just inserted a biographical blurb file with links to readings about three strategic scientists who had interesting lives:

1. Albert Einstein
2. Louis de Broglie
3. Thomas Young

The most interesting part of the theory of relativity is light, and all three of these scientists contributed enormously to our understanding of light.

Case 1; Einstein Module

There is an important announcement about our writing assignments, inside Webcourses.

Also, I will release the 3rd learning module, the Albert Einstein Learning Module, on Saturday at noon. It covers only three chapters:

17. Light
10. Einstein's Relativity
24. Modern Atom

so there is not an enormous rush.

You can start reading in chapter 17. I specifically like the "Physics On Your Own" blurb on p. 341, with two pencils and a small mirror. You can try this out. And if you have another small mirror or two, you can make your own retro-reflector like the Apollo astronauts placed on the moon, which is diagrammed on p. 344.