| Day | Date | Lect No. | Lecture Topic | Lect- urer * | Reading | LabNo. | Laboratory Topic | Writing Assignment (Essay #) |
| H | 8/31 | 1 | The Foundations of Science | ES | Preface, Shahn: Intro. | I Assigned | ||
| T | 05 | 2 | Celestial Phenomena of the Night Sky | |||||
| W | 06 | 2 | Course Introduction | ES | ||||
| H | 07 | 3 | The Year and the Calendar | MD | Bennick: Chapter I | |||
| M | 9/11 | 4 | A Closer Look at the Sky | MD | Bennick: Chapter II | 2 | I DUE | |
| T | 12 | 3 | Archimedes' Principle | |||||
| W | 13 | 5 | A Geometrical Approach | MD | Bennick: Chapter III | |||
| M | 14 | 6 | Aristotle's Laws of Motion | MD | Bennick: Chapter IV | |||
| M | 9/18 | 7 | Aristotle's Astronomy | MD | Bennick: Chapter V | 3 | I Returned | |
| T | 19 | 4 | Measurements in Space | |||||
| W | 20 | 8 | A New View of the Universe- Aristarchus and Hipparchus | MD | Bennick: Chapter VI | |||
| H | 21 | 9 | An Experimental Physics Eratosthenes and Archimedes |
MD | Bennick: Chapter VII | |||
| M | 9/25 | 10 | The Different Approach of Ptolemy | MD | Bennick: Chapter VIII | 4 | I Revised DUE | |
| T | 26 | 5 | Models and Their Consequences | |||||
| W | 27 | 11 | Aristotle is Reexamined | MD | Bennick: Chapter IX | II Assigned | ||
| H | 28 | 12 | Copernicus Changes the Game - Retrograde Motion is Explained | MD | Bennick: Chapter X | I Revised Returned | ||
| M | 10/02 | 13 | Tycho & Kepler | MD | Bennick: Chapter XI | 5 | ||
| T | 03 | 6 | Galileo I: Uniform Acceleration c. 1600 | |||||
| W | 04 | 14 | Kepler's Laws | MD | Bennick: Chapter XII | II DUE | ||
| H | 05 | 15 | Galilean Astronomy | ES | Bennick: Chapter XIII | |||
| T | 10[M] | 16 | Galilean Mechanics | ES | Bennick: Chapter XIV | 6 | ||
| W | 11 | 17 | Galileo Applies His Theory | ES | Bennick: Chapter XV | |||
| H | 12 | 18 | Motion and Collisions: A Prologue to Newton | ES | Bennick: Chapter XVI | II Returned | ||
| M | 10/16 | 19 | Newton's Laws I: Inertia | ES | Bennick: Chapter XVII | 7 | Acceleration c. 1990 Galileo II: Uniform | |
| T | 17 | 7 | ||||||
| W | 18 | 20 | Newton's Laws II: Forces and Reaction | ES | Bennick: Chapter XVIII | II Revised DUE | ||
| H | 19 | 21 | Newton's Law of Gravity | ES | Bennick: Chapter XIX | |||
| W | 10/23 | 22 | The Consequences of Gravity, | ES | Bennick: Chapter XX | 8 | Newton: The Second Law | |
| T | 24 | Force at a Distance, Tides | 8 | |||||
| H | 25 | 23 | Work and Energy | ES | Bennick: Chapter XXI | II Revised | ||
| W | 26 | 24 | Heat and Conservation of Energy | ES | Bennick: Chapter XXII | Returned | ||
| M | 10/30 | 25 | EXAM: Lectures 1 - 21 | 9 | Conservation of Mechanical Energy | III Assigned | ||
| T | 31 | 9 | ||||||
| W | 11/01 | 26 | The Past and The Future | ES | Bennick: Chapters | |||
| H | 02 | 27 | Conclusion Theme I | ES | Bennick: Chapter XXV XXIII and XXIV | |||
| M | 11/06 | 28 | Bridge; Introduction to Theme II | ES | >> | Lab Discussion # 6-9 | ||
| T | 07 | >> | ||||||
| W | 08 | 29 | On the Nature of Matter - I | LM | Partington: pp. 1-11 | III DUE | ||
| H | 09 | 30 | On the Nature of Matter - II | LM | Partington: pp. 13-40 | |||
| W | 11/13 | 31 | Properties of Air: Torricelli & | LM | MacKenzie: Chapter 5 | 10 | Hook's Law and the | |
| T | 14 | von Guericke | 10 | |||||
| H | 15 | 32 | Properties of Air: Boyle | LM | Connant: pp 3 - 11 | III Returned | ||
| M | 16 | 33 | Identification of Gases | LM | Partington: pp 65-89 | |||
| W | 11/20 | 34 | Physical and Chemical | LM | Partington: pp 90-121 | 11 | Pressure of the Atmosphere: Boyle's Law | |
| T | 21 | Properties of Matter | 11 | III Revised DUE | ||||
| W | 22[F] | (No Classes) | ||||||
| M | 11/27 | 35 | Lavoisier: Foundations of | LM | Partington: pp. 122- | 12 | The Release of "Fixed Air" | |
| T | 28 | Chemical Reactions | 152 | 12 | ||||
| W | 29 | 36 | The Atomic Theory of Dalton | LM | Partington: pp. 164-177 | III Revised Returned | ||
| H | 30 | 37 | Guy-Lussac: The Law of Combining Volumes | LM | To be distributed | IV Assigned | ||
| M | 12/04 | 38 | Avogadro's Law | LM | Partington: pp. 208-210 | 13 | The Relative Weights of Particles in Gases | |
| T | 05 | 13 | ||||||
| W | 06 | 39 | Cannizzaro and Atomic Weights | LM | Partington: pp. 256-258 | |||
| H | 07 | 40 | Size of individual atoms & molecules | LM | To be distributed | IV DUE (no revisions) | ||
| W | 12/11 | 41 | Mendeleyev's Periodic Table | LM | Posin: (selections) | 14 | Combining Weights of Metals | |
| T | 12 | 14 | ||||||
| H | 13 | 42 | Summary & review lecture & questions | LM | ||||
| M | 14 | READING DAY | ||||||
| W | 12/20 | FINAL EXAM 11:30 - 1:30 |
* The lecturers for the course are:
All lectures are in room HN C002 at 12:10 on the days indicated; labs are in Room HN C005 as per your schedule