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| Date | Lecture | Lab | Reading Assignment |
| Sept 9 | About the course Science and scientists |
Chapt 7 | |
| 14 | Newton | Newton's Opticks | Chapt 8 |
| 16 | Color | Chapt 21 (pgs 131-135), 22 | |
| 21 | Refraction and dispersion | Color Circus | Chapt 10 |
| 23 | Rods and cones | More to this... | Chapt 19, 20 How we see |
| 28 | Visual processing | What you see... | Chapt 17,18 |
| 30 | Waves and the Ether | Chapt 9 | |
| Oct 5 | Electromagnetic theory | Making Waves | Chapt 11, 12 |
| 7 | EXAM! | ||
| 12 | <Break> | (no lab) | |
| 14 | Lucretius | Chapt 1 | |
| 19 | A neuron is not a wire | Fields and Circuits | Chapt 20 (again) |
| 21 | Einstein | Chapt 13, 14, 15 | |
| 26 | Wave goodbye to the Ether | Photoelectric Effect | Chapt 16 |
| 28 | EXAM! | ||
| Nov 2 | Photosynthesis | Color in Leaves | Chapt 23, 24, 25 |
| 4 | Cont'd | ||
| 9 | Cathode ray tubes | Secret Life of Spinach | TBA... |
| 11 | Electron Emissions and Orbitals | ||
| 16 | Atomic and Molecular Absorption | Secret Lives cont'd | |
| 18 | Biological Molecules | ||
| 23 | EXAM! | (no lab) | |
| 25 | <Break> | ||
| 30 | Probabilities and Uncertainties | TBA | |
| Dec 2 | The Biosphere | ||
| 7 | Earth Science Systems | TBA | |
| 9 | The Universe | ||
| 14 | What is science? Has it a unity? |
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