Chapter 1 - The World of Atoms
Introduction



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    Pedogogic philosophy

  • The 14th student
  • Medieval style of presentation
  • Einstein's caveat Presenting existing knowledge vs student discovery labs>
  • Presenting existing knowledge vs student discovery labs
  • Hypotheses non fingo

    A Conceptual approach

  • An alternative beginning: The most important discovery
  • Seeing patterns & making up stories
  • Feynman and chess
  • The sum of the parts become clear when you've seen the whole

  • Dwell time formulation
  • Chaotic orbits of Saturn's moons
  • Ode to a flower

    • Until you know it, who discovered it is irrelevant

  • Historical approach
  • Where to begin
  • The Physicist's Mystery Story
  • The "discovery" of Italy
  • Take me to your leader
  • Naming it isn't understanding it

    • Sizes

  • Doublings
  • Zoom in by 10's
  • How big? How small?
  • Sunsets for electrons
  • Sizes of numbers
  • Differences between large numbers
  • 6 degrees
  • Discover article

    • What is your world view?

  • Quiz
  • Seasons
  • Put yourself in the picture

  • Definition of the second

    • Reality versus illusion

  • Sizes of numbers
  • The first three minute quiz
  • continued

  • Count the passes
  • Writeup

  • Get small
  • Contraction
  • bewegter Körper
  • Search

    Magic: illusions created from a false perspective

  • Card trick

  • James Randi
  • Andy Kaufman
  • Tabloids

  • The Turk
  • Turk (cont.)
  • Turk (cont.)
  • Clever Hans

  • Criss Angel
  • continued
  • Breaking the code

    • Chapter 2