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written by Jose Wudka
These 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..
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General Physics
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Relativity
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- Special Relativity
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© 1998 Jose Wudka
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cosmology, spacetime
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Wudka, J. (1998). From Antiquity to Einstein. Retrieved March 29, 2024, from https://physics.ucr.edu/~wudka/Physics7/Notes_www/node1.html
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Wudka, Jose. From Antiquity to Einstein. 1998. https://physics.ucr.edu/~wudka/Physics7/Notes_www/node1.html (accessed 29 March 2024).
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Wudka, Jose. From Antiquity to Einstein. 1998. 29 Mar. 2024 <https://physics.ucr.edu/~wudka/Physics7/Notes_www/node1.html>.
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