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Valparaíso and Viña del Mar

Semester Spanish Language and Culture Program - Spring 1 2009
Physics and Humor

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Language Level: High Intermediate
Placement Exam Required
Physics and Humor
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Course taken with: Primarily Local Students
Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso (Valparaíso and Viña del Mar, Chile)
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Course Description

Area of Study

Science

Hours & Credits

38

Hours of Instruction

2

Semester Credit Units

3

Quarter Credit Units

Prerequisites and Language Level

Note: A placement exam will be required when you arrive on site.

High Intermediate
This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of three semesters (or five quarters) of college-level Spanish. However, students must take a placement exam to determine the course level into which they will be able to enroll.

Overview

Objetivos
• Mostrar los conceptos e ideas fundamentales de la ciencia, y en particular de la Física a través de situaciones humorísticas.

Contenido:
1.- El Método Científico.
2.- Los principios Básicos de la Mecánica.
3.- Energía y Entropía.
4.- La síntesis de Maxwell en Electromagnetismo.
5.- Relatividad
6.- Física Cuántica y Nuclear.

Bibliografía
- Publicaciones periódicas: Currents Contenst; Physics Teacher; Physics Today.
- Paul Hewitt: Conceptual Physics 5th. De. Little, Brow & Company, 1985.
- Lewis Carroll Epstain: * Thinking Physics, 2nd.Ed., 1985.
- Relativity Visualized, Ed. Insight Press, 1985.
- Jearl Walker: Física Recreativa. Ed. Limusa, 1988.


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