Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2500097 Physics | OT | 4 | 2 |
2504235 Science, Technology and Humanities | OT | 4 | 2 |
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The contents are grouped in two chronological parts. The first one deals with the rise of classical physics, from Antiquity through to the Enlightenment; the second deals with the development of contemporary physics.
Part 1
1 Introduction: physics and history
2 Physis, movement and cosmology
3 The astronomical revolution
4 Newton and The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
5 Electricity and Enlightened physics
Part 2
6 The birth of a discipline: classsical physics
7 The new physics: mattter, energy and radiation
8 The relativistic revolution
9. The quantum revolution
10 Physics, gender, and society in the 20th century
Theory lectures: Presentation of each theme (aims, contents, related texts). The presentation will be available at the Aula Moodle.
Practical lectures: Discussion of the theme's readings, available at the Aula Moodle.
Personal work: Guided reading of texts, study, elaboration of essays and essay review.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Practical lectures | 16 | 0.64 | 3, 16, 33, 25, 30, 29, 24, 32 |
Theoretical lectures | 33 | 1.32 | 9, 11, 12, 5, 7, 6, 8, 14, 10, 13, 16, 17, 21, 20, 19, 15, 23, 28, 27, 26, 29, 2 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Personal work | 52 | 2.08 | 16, 29, 24 |
Preparation of essays and essay review | 46.5 | 1.86 | 3, 16, 33, 25, 30, 29, 24, 31, 32 |
Exam part 1. The exam will be based on the questions proposed in the Campus virtual and will refer to the texts and images discussed. The student will have to identify and explain the historical significance of some of these texts or images.
Essays. For each topic, we will raise questions related to the readings proposed in the Moodle classroom. The student will write six essays of up to 600 words on any of these questions, and submit them through the Aula Moodle. The readings will be discussed in the classroom.
Essay review part 2. consists of an essay review of a text about the history of contemporary physics. The essay will be between 1200 and 3000 words long (depending on whether it is an individual or a two-person essay), and should clearly outline the main ideas of the chosen text and its significance for the history of physics. The Moodle Classroom proposes the texts that can be the subject of the review.
There will be a reevaluation exam, with a total maximum weight of 60 %. To be reevaluated, you must have been evaluated in a set of activities whose weight equals to a minimum of two thirds of the total grade of the subject. The student will be deemed NOT AVALUABLE if he has not participated in all the assessment activities.
One-off assessment. The student who has taken up the One-off Assessment mode will do a final test that will consist of an exam on Part 1 (30%) and the submission of the 6 assays and the review of Part 2. This test will be held on the same day, time and place as the tests for the second part of the continuous evaluation mode.
In the event of a student committing any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade awarded to an assessment activity, the student will be given a zero for this activity. In the event of several irregularities in assessment activities of the same subject, the student will be given a zero as the final grade for this subject.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Essay review part 2 | 30% | 0 | 0 | 3, 9, 11, 5, 8, 13, 16, 21, 20, 33, 23, 30, 27, 26, 29, 2, 31, 32 |
Essays | 40% | 0 | 0 | 1, 3, 18, 33, 22, 25, 30, 28, 29, 24, 31, 32, 4 |
Exam part 1 | 30% | 2.5 | 0.1 | 9, 12, 7, 6, 14, 10, 16, 17, 19, 15, 28 |
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Buchwald, Jed Z.; Fox, Robert eds. (2013). The Oxford Handbook of the History of Physics. Oxford: OUP.
Cassidy, David; Holton, Gerald; Rutherford, James. Understanding Physics. New York: Springer, 2002. Disponible en línia UAB.
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Heilbron, John (2015). Physics: A Short History. From Quintessence to Quarks. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Herran, Néstor; Roqué, Xavier, eds. (2012). La física en la dictadura. Físicos, cultura y poder en España, 1939-1975. Bellaterra: Publicacions de la UAB. Disponible en línia UAB.
Kragh, Helge (1999). Quantum Generations. A History of Physics in the Twentieth Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Trad. cast.: Generaciones cuánticas. Una historia de la física en el siglo XX. Madrid: Akal, 2007.
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Shapin, Steven (1996). La revolución científica. Una interpretación alternativa. Barcelona: Paidós, 2000.
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