ABSTRACT

It was his last lecture of the semester. The professor had been teaching PHY 101 for over four months, and in doing so, he not only covered some hard-core physics, but also implications that the laws and methodology of physics may have on students’ worldview. He had emphasized the continuity of science, the pattern of universal discoveries that always stem from the study of specific problems, the interplay between observation and theory, and the connection between terrestrial physics and the celestial objects.