Summary
World views
- How do we make sense of the world?
- Affects all asoects of our lives
- Role of physics - the study of the natural world
- Aristotelian view: Teleology - to find the ultimate purpose of each thing; Empiricism - describe world by generalizations from observations
- Galilean view: Experimental Science - To describe the natural world by a set of mathematical laws that can be tested by careful experiments
- The beginning of a revolution
The physics of motion
- position, velocity, acceleration
Example of Falling Bodies
- Demonstrations
- In the real world neither Galileo nor Aristotle is right!
- Then is one better?