HONORS PS 1500 - IT=S ABOUT TIME
Review for Exam #1
Pythagoras and his followers - not including the specific math
celestial sphere
diurnal (daily) rotation of the celestial sphere
retrograde motion of a planet
Ptolemy's geocentric model
uniform (constant speed) circular motion
epicycle
deferent
Prime Mover
the Library at Alexandria
Hypatia
Plato's concepts of the world and time
Plato= s Allegory of the Cave
Aristotle= s concepts of time
Aristotle's four prime substances of the sublunar (Earthly) world
Aristotle's fifth substance (ether or quintessence) of the astronomical (heavenly) world
St. Augustine= s concept of time
semantic and episodic memory
A Trinidad time@
Copernicus' heliocentric model
Giordano Bruno
Tycho Brahe - not including his model of the solar system
James Usher and Saturday, October 22, 4004 B.C.
La Peyrere and the creation of the AJewish race@
Jesuits in China
Rene Descartes and A The World@
Thomas Burnet and the Alps
John Ray and Edward Lloyd and the slowly changing Earth
Galileo Galilei and his discoveries with his telescope
Kepler's three laws of planetary motion
ellipse
period of an orbit
Aristotle's four types of motion
"nature abhors a vacuum"
uniform motion (constant speed) - not including the graphs
accelerated motion (speeding up, slowing down, changing direction) - not including the graphs
uniformly accelerated motion (constant acceleration)
Galileo and his experiments with falling bodies
Galileo's experiments with a pendulum - dependence on mass, amplitude (size of swing), and length
Aristotle vs. Galileo on horizontal motion
Galileo and projectile motion
scalars and vectors - not including the addition of vectors
speed (a scalar) and velocity (a vector)
Isaac Newton and his discoveries
inertia (the concept) and mass (the measurement)
momentum and conservation of momentum
force
centripetal (center-seeking) force
Newton's three laws of motion (in words)
Newton's universal law of gravitation
discovery of Uranus and Neptune
determinism (clockwork universe)
free will
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