Ask a Scientist: "From Galileo to Einstein - Classical Physics 101" June 13, 2006

Ask a Scientist is a new and different kind of lecture series. If you love watching Nova and reading Scientific American at the doctor's office, then this event is for you. Enjoy food, drinks, socializing, and conversation about the universe's most fascinating mysteries. http://www.askascientistsf.com/

This Month's Topic: From Galileo to Einstein -- Classical Physics 101

Classical physics tells us many things that are both little-known and fascinating, and has implications that are both profound and controversial. Tucker Hiatt, everyone's favorite physics teacher (even if you don't know it yet), will show us how every step we take moves the entire Earth; how Galileo's insights into relativity led smoothly to Einstein's; and how while Newtonian mechanics is deterministic and quantum mechanics is random, neither quite leaves room for free will! Whether you last picked up a physics book decades or days ago, don't miss this chance to brush up on space, matter, energy, entropy, heat, electricity, magnetism, light, radioactivity, and even a little chaos.

Speaker: Tucker Hiatt, Physics Teacher and Director of Wonderfest

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