Review of Course -- 7
- Renaissance
- Galileo: Key figure of the scientific revolution that culminates with Newton
- Experimental Method: Not just observation, but controlled experiments to test principles designed to apply in idealized cases
- Motion of falling bodies, projectiles
- Principle of superposition: (Galilean Invariance: Motion at a constant velocity does not change the laws of physics)
- Principle of Inertia: (A body in motion will tend to stay in motion.)
- Astronomical observation using telescope starting 1609 - 1610