PHYSICS 1101 --- Fall 2019



PHYS 1101: First-year Seminar Physics:

What really happened: How scientific theories come about.



Lecture materials


While the book store is still short of book copies, I will leave here a scan of the first pages of the book so that you can follow through with your reading assignments:
  • Drake: Galileo added 9/7/19



    The Research Process:

  • On plagiarism
  • On citing and quoting
  • A commented example for how to quote and cite effectively. Note, that our rules are slightly different from the example article.


  • Aristotle about Earth Excerpt from On The Heavens
  • Aristotle about his elements Excerpt from On The Heavens
  • Ptolemy explains epicyclesExcerpt from the Almagest


    Handouts etc.:



  • A Short History of Thermal Concepts and Systems








    • General Course Material:
  • Lecture material: Galileo theme
  • Fall '19 Syllabus: FYS Phys 1101 update 9/3