Course Content
7 LESSONS
7 HOURS Total Length
Lesson 1
Historical Background: Aristotle’s Theory of Gravity, Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy, Descartes’ Theory of Gravity
60 minutes
Lesson 2
Newtonian Gravity: Newton's Theory and its Reception
60 minutes
Lesson 3
Newtonian Gravity: Modes of Scientific Explanation
60 minutes
Lesson 4
Inverse-Square Laws: The Newton and Coulomb Force Laws, Why Inverse-Square?
60 minutes
Lesson 5
The Victory of Newtonian Gravity: Observational Vindication, Modes of Scientific Explanation, Redux
60 minutes
Lesson 6
The Eclipse of Newtonian Gravity: Locality in Physics, Introduction to Einstein's General Relativity
60 minutes
Lesson 7
The Eclipse of Newtonian Gravity: Observational Vindication of General Relativity, General Relativity and Quantum Electrodynamics
60 minutes