The December 1997 issue of The Physics Teacher contained an article describing a liberal-arts physics course entitled Galileo to Newton.1 This course has been successfully offered for a number of years at the College of Staten Island, and interest in it has been substantial as evidenced by requests for reprints of the TPT article and requests for copies of the course lab manual. A follow-on course was designed called Maxwell to Einstein and Beyond. We offered this course for the first time in the fall 2003 semester.
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Erlichson
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–535
(Dec. 1997
).2.
H. Erlichson, Maxwell to Einstein and Beyond (College of Staten Island, 2005).
3.
P.A. Schilpp, “Discussion with Einstein on Epistemological Problems in Atomic Physics,” in Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist (Harper, 1959), pp. 199–241.
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This paper, “On the electrodynamics of moving bodies,” was published in 1905 in Annalen der Physik. It can be found in English translation in The Principle of Relativity (Dover, New York, 1923).
7.
See
H.
Erlichson
, “Bohr and the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox
,” letter to the editor, Am. J. Phys.
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, 634
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