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Jose Wudka's (UC Riverside) online notes outline the history of Western thought on cosmology and the structure of space and time. Included is an introduction to the scientific method and large numbers, astronomy, Newton's laws, and the aspects of electricity and magnetism and optics that lead to 20th century physics. The final sections cover special and general relativity, and their impact on astronomy and cosmology. Important contributions by the Babylonians, the Egyptians, the Greeks, Ptomely, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, and Einstein are included. Written in 1998

http://physics.ucr.edu/~wudka/Physics7/Notes_www/node1.html

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General Physics - History Relativity - General Relativity - History - Miscellaneous - Special Relativity	- Lower Undergraduate - High School	- Instructional Material = Curriculum support - Reference Material

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Restriction:: © 1998 Jose Wudka
Keywords:: cosmology, spacetime
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created December 15, 2003 by Patricia Monahan
Record Updated:: June 20, 2010 by Lyle Barbato
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