First Week: The Birth of Time
#1 M 1/6 Course Introduction. Lahr/Pastor
Time and Music. Lahr/Williams
#2 W 1/8 Time of the Chosen. Pastor
#3 F 1/10 Music (contd.); Time measurement; D Duck in Mathmagic Land video clip. Lahr/Williams
Second Week: Listen to the Greeks
#4 M 1/13 A dance of time. Pastor
#5 W 1/15 Riddle of the Sphinx; Kylix; Greek time. Lahr/Pastor/Williams
#6 F 1/17 Ritual, art, and mathematics; IQ video clip I. Lahr/Pastor/Discussion
Third Week: Reckoning with Time: Philosophers and Mathematicians
No class Monday 1/20: Martin Luther King Day. Meet Thursday (x-hour, 12:00 - 12:50).
#7 W 1/22 Zeno's paradoxes; IQ video clip II. Lahr/Williams
Wednesday and Thursday 1/22 and 1/23, 7:00-8:00 p.m.: First Discussion Sessions with the TAs:
- Wednesday, 1/22, 7:00pm to 8:00pm: two sessions-- 102 Bradley and 105 Bradley
- Thursday, 1/23, 7:00pm to 8:00pm: one session-- Carson Hall Room L01
#8 Th 1/23 Missing the point; Tango Lesson (Sally Potter) video clip; Tango (Carlos Saura) video clip. Pastor
#9 F 1/24 Looking for cracks with the Sophists. Lahr/Pastor/Williams/Discussion
Fourth Week: A World of Clocks
#10 M 1/27 What is time? Pastor
#11 W 1/29 Galileo: time and space. Lahr/Williams
Thursday 1/30, 12:00-12:50 (x-hour): Exam 1 (multiple choice), Murdough Cook Auditorium.
#12 F 1/31 Clocks: making and keeping time. Lahr/Pastor/Williams/Discussion
Fifth Week: Harnessing Time
#13 M 2/3 Forbidden knowledge and the power of time. Pastor
#14 W 2/5 Newton: time and space. Lahr/Williams
Thursday 2/6, 12:00-12:50 (x-hour): Second Discussion Sessions with the TAs:
- Three sessions: 217 Dartmouth, 107 Dartmouth, 106 Reed
No class Friday 2/7: Winter Carnival
Sixth Week: A World of Reason
#15 M 2/10 Descartes/coordinates. Lahr/Williams
#16 W 2/12 Descartes, Frankenstein, and Goya. Pastor
Thursday 2/13, 12:00-12:50 (x-hour): Third Discussion Sessions with the TAs:
- Three sessions: 217 Dartmouth, 107 Dartmouth, 106 Reed
#17 F 2/14 The Scientific Revolution: masters of the universe. Lahr/Pastor/Williams/Discussion
Seventh Week: On Relativity and Gato Time
#18 M 2/17 Time, consciousness, and body. Pastor
#19 W 2/19 Einstein and relativity. Lahr/Williams
[Add this math page to the textbook, following page 351. Move problem 2 of the math Exercises in section 8.2 to the math Exercises in section 9.2.]
Thursday 2/20, 12:00-12:50 (x-hour): Exam 2 (multiple choice), Murdough Cook Auditorium.
#20 F 2/21 The 20th century: rethinking reality; Yellow Submarine video clip. Lahr/Pastor/Williams/Discussion
Eighth Week: Time and the Fourth Dimension
#21 M 2/24 Art and the fourth dimension. Pastor
#22 W 2/26 4D metrics; hypercubes; timescape. Lahr/Williams
Thursday 2/27, 12:00-12:50 (x-hour): Fourth Discussion Sessions with the TAs:
- Three sessions: 217 Dartmouth, 107 Dartmouth, 106 Reed
#23 F 2/28 Einstein's legacy, and models of time in 100 years of Solitude; Banchoff video. Lahr/Pastor/Williams
Ninth Week: Past, Present, and Elsewhere
#24 M 3/3 Playing with Time in 100 Years of Solitude. Pastor
#25 W 3/5 Smashing the clocks in 100 Years of Solitude. Pastor
#26 F 3/7 Conclusions. Lahr/Pastor/Williams/Discussion
Course Evaluations.
The final exam, a five-page paper from a list of possible topics, is due on Monday,
March 10, the first day of final exams, by 10:00 a.m. Take it to Dwight Lahr's office, 410 Bradley.
