Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Now don't you wish...

that you could take this course!




Prague to Leipzig to Paris to Cambridge. Sweet.

The theme is the age-old calculus war: who invented calculus, Newton or Leibniz?

We start, however, in Prague with Kepler and his laws of planetary motion. Kepler's second law is that a planet sweeps out the same area in the same amount of time which means that... well let one of our CNU physics grads, Randall Munroe, demonstrate with one of his xkcd comics:




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