Physics 10 - Lecture 01: Atoms and Heat

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Physics 10: Physics for Future Presidents. Spring 2006. Professor Richard A. Muller. The most interesting and important topics in physics, stressing conceptual understanding rather than math, with applications to current events. Topics covered may vary and may include energy and conservation, radioactivity, nuclear physics, the Theory of Relativity, lasers, explosions, earthquakes, superconductors, and quantum physics. [courses] [physics10] [spring2006] Credits: lecturer:Professor Richard A. Muller, producers:Educational Technology Services

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Uploaded: August 20, 2007 at 9:24 pm
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yoursdhruly (December 31, 2008 at 9:28 am)
Incredible series of lectures! Thank you UCB!
Mutske161 (December 23, 2008 at 1:00 pm)
For the perspective of light we move at the speed of light calvinhobbesliker..... I'ff u move with the lightspeed away from home,then u will see your home move away from u with the same speed u move.And with constant speed and no other reference u can not tell what or who is moving. ;)Thats a law Einstein gave us.U can do it with gravitie also..
ProsecuteCheneyEtAl (December 23, 2008 at 5:26 pm)
If you move away from home at the speed of light you will see your home not move at all. That's the point.

Stop thinking about time for a minute. As you accelerate towards the speed of light it takes longer and longer for light to reach you. So the whole outside world seems to slow down as you go faster.

As you get very close to the speed of light your home will become completely frozen. Why? Because light can't reach you anymore. So what you see is the last light that hit you. Forever.
ProsecuteCheneyEtAl (December 23, 2008 at 11:10 am)
I think you're missing a basic point: time is relative to velocity. So if I am going a zillion miles an hour time will be going the normal rate for me, but it will be going slower for everything slower to me.

So, if you were travelling at the speed of light, time would be going the normal speed for you and stopped for everybody else not going at the speed of light.

The term for "everthing going at the same velocity" is "inertial frame of reference."

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ProsecuteCheneyEtAl (December 23, 2008 at 11:01 am)
I think its a course for people who don't know much physics and don't plan on studying it, just to get a very basic knowledge. "Physics for poets" or something like that.

Notice there is not math.
Karmakameleeon (December 19, 2008 at 10:31 pm)
man i kno... college must be easy!
corriendo (January 4, 2009 at 9:15 pm)
i go to uc berkeley, and i can tell you that not all classes are like this. like ProsecuteCheneyEtAl said, this is a course for non-physics people just to give them a non-math background in physics and how it relates to everyday life. note the name of the course: physics for future presidents (not physicists or scientists or anything like that).

some college courses are pretty easy though.
Karmakameleeon (January 5, 2009 at 6:22 pm)
wow i didnt know that my sarcasm would be so negatively received...


thanks for clarifying prosecutecheney and running....
idleflaborgy (December 18, 2008 at 11:55 am)
he pretty smart but maybe not then agin we'll see if can answer can you? because the thing what i'm confused over is lightening. like is lightening fire? what is lightening? is there, is it cause it's close to space that it's alljaggly? and there's no air in space? can it burn stuff? like could lignhtnig burn fire? does anyone know if theres such a thing as lightenig at the total bottom of the ocean? they(the fish) prolly don't call it lighgtenng cuz fish don't talk lol.oh god what is it!!???
calvinhobbesliker (December 16, 2008 at 6:04 am)
we don't move the speed of light through space