Table of Contents:
00:09 Lecture 1.1: Historical Overview
00:52 The Real Story!
03:05 US National Academy of Engineering - Grand Challenges
04:55 Historical Perspective
07:20 Aristotle's dubious results regarding science
09:24 One Example & Some History
11:22 By the late 1800's and early 1900's,
12:40 Quo Vadis?
13:47 The progress of science
16:27 How to get the most from this course
19:25 How to learn the material
21:43 What Are Your Responsibilities?
23:27 APPENDIX
This video is part of the nanoHUB hosted course "Modern Physics" (http://nanohub.org/courses/phys342)
Purdue PHYS 342 provides an introduction to the physical principles underlying topics in Modern Physics. This course is intended to provide engineering undergraduate students with a firm base from which they can extend their understanding of the quantum world.