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January 5 - What is physics?
January 7 - Science and religion
January 10 - Greek Science: Origins and Eudoxus
January 12 - Greek Science: Astronomy
January 14 - Greek Science: Matter
January 19 - Renaissance Art: Mark Magleby
January 21 - Geometry and the Astrolabe
January 24 - Oral reports on the Renaissance
January 26 - Copernicus, Brahe, and Kepler
January 28 - Galileo
January 31 - Group Discussions on the Renaissance
February 1 - Scholars of London Concert
February 2 - Oral reports on the Baroque
February 4 - Baroque Music: Douglas Bush
February 7 - Descartes and Huygens: matter, motion, and light
February 9 - Newton and the Principia
February 11 - Newtonian optics
February 14 - Cartesian-Newtonian Analysis and Determinism
February 16 - Group Discussions on the Baroque
February 18 - Oral Reports on the Neo-Classical Era
February 22 - The Mechanicians and Thomas Young
February 23 - Heat, Energy, and Energy Conservation
February 25 - Ockham's Razor, Variational Methods, Scientific Revolutions
February 28 - Group Discussions on the Neo-Classical Period
March 1 - Oral Reports on the Romantic Period
March 3 - Electromagnetic Theory
March 6 - Urban Society in the 19th Century: Howard Bahr
March 8 - The History of Electromagnetic Theory
March 10 - Fields and Statistical Mechanics
March 13 - Group Discussions on the Romantic Period
March 15 - Einstein and Special Relativity
March 17 - Oral Reports on the 20th Century
March 20 - The Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
March 22 - Wave and Matrix Mechanics
March 24 & 27 - 20th Century Music and Art
March 29 - Applying Quantum Mechanics, the Copenhagen Interpretation
March 31 - Group Discussions on the Early 20th Century
April 3 - General Relativity and Non-Euclidean Geometry
April 5 - Group Theory and Symmetry in Particle Physics
April 7 - The Standard Model
April 10 - Final Review
April 12 - Group Discussions on the Modern Era