General Comments
What have we done this semester?
- We have studied the most important developments in physics, stressing conceptual understanding.
- Science since antiquity (mostly Western)
- Revolutions in thought:
- Scientific Method, Classical Physics~ 1300 – 1900
- Space-Time, Quantum BehaviorKey advances 1900 - 1930
- This review does NOT cover the entire semester in detail
- We have had two previous summaries.
- Today: The overall picture More detail on the last part of the course: Quantum mechanics and the last 2 lectures.