Sir Isaac Newton
Newton's Laws
- Inertia
- F = ma
- Action-Reaction
illustrated in a jump shot
Explaining Kepler
Newton's Theory of Gravity
- Gravity on Earth
- Universal Gravitation
- Gravity and Planet Motion
- Testing Newton's Gravity
- source of Uranus orbit perturbations
- binary stars
- globular star clusters, e.g., 47 Tuc, Omega Cen
Cosmology with Newton: Origin of the Solar System
- Prosolar nebula
(molecular cloud in the
Eagle Nebula)
ingredients: gas and dust - Angular momentum and disk formation
- The rise of planets
Light and Atoms: the Quantum Microworld
Light
- Electromagnetic radiation
- Waves
- EM spectrum
