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Intro To Physics: Mrs. Coyle

This document provides an overview of the key topics in physics including mechanics, electricity, magnetism, waves, optics, and modern physics. It discusses some important figures in the history of physics such as Aristotle, Galileo, Newton, Faraday, Einstein, and their contributions to our understanding of motion, light, and other physical phenomena. The document also explains key concepts in physics like the scientific method, laws, theories, and the relationship between science, technology, and mathematics.

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Intro To Physics: Mrs. Coyle

This document provides an overview of the key topics in physics including mechanics, electricity, magnetism, waves, optics, and modern physics. It discusses some important figures in the history of physics such as Aristotle, Galileo, Newton, Faraday, Einstein, and their contributions to our understanding of motion, light, and other physical phenomena. The document also explains key concepts in physics like the scientific method, laws, theories, and the relationship between science, technology, and mathematics.

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Intro to Physics

Mrs. Coyle

Physics is the study of the physical world


including motion, energy, light, electricity,
magnetism, sound etc.
Golden Gate Bridge

Physics
 Mechanics
 Kinematics (motion)
 Statics, Dynamics (forces)
 Electricity
 Magnetism
 Waves
 Optics (geometric optics)
 Nuclear Physics (Modern Physics)
Physics
 The most basic
science.
 The foundation of
other sciences

 What?
 Why?
 How?
 When?
Aristotle (Greek 4th Century BC)

 Logic
 Studied motion
 Natural and violent motion
 4 elements:
earth, water, air, fire
 Geocentric view
 Aristarchos(310-230 BC),
disagreed and believed in
heliocentric view.
Democritus

 Greek who devised the


first atomic theory.
Galileo Galilei (1564 AD)

 Father of the scientific


method (along with the
Englishman Francis
Bacon 1500’s).
 Studied motion.
 Agreed with the Greek
Aristarchos and Polish
Copernicus (1473-1543)
on heliocentric view
point. This lead to his
house arrest.
Isaac Newton
 English (1642-1727) related force and
motion and studied light.
A Glance at Some Scientists who
Studied Electricity and Magnetism

 American Benjamin Franklin (1706-


1790), experimented with electricity.
 Michael Faraday (1791-1867), English
with a grammar school education,
found that a moving magnet induces
electric current to flow.
The BIG Guy

 Albert Einstein (1879-1955)


 Relativity: there is no absolute
frame of reference that is at
rest.
 Photoelectric effect (Light is
quantized) (Nobel Prize)
 Related mass and energy
E=mc2
The Scientific Method

 Steps followed during scientific


investigations.
Scientific Method
 Recognize a problem
 Hypothesis- educated guess, testable
 When tested and confirmed becomes a law
 Observation -measurement, data
collection (experiment)
 Theory – information including tested
hypothesis
 Conclusion
Law or Principle

 A hypothesis that has been repeatedly


tested and not contradicted.

 Laws change or are abandoned when


contradicted.
Scientific Fact
 Observation
 May change
Science and Technology

 Science  Pure
 Technology  Applied
Math and Units
 Math- the language of Physics
 Units SI – International System
 Basic Units MKS
 Meter m
 Mass kg
 Time s
 National Bureau of Standards
 Prefixes

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