Physics is the science which attempts to explain what's really going on
in the corporal world at the most fundmental level. The notions which make
up much of the content of Physics 5A - the nature of motion, energy and
momentum conservation, and gravitation, are direct outgrowths of questions
posed by the metaphysicists of Ancient Greek's Golden Age. With the
advent of the so-called `Age of Reason', beginning as far back as the
14th Century AD, and crystallizing with the work of Isaac Newton in the
17th century, a formal, quantitative foundation emerged which allowed the
blossoming of physics as an exact science. It is this body of work which
we will attempt to master in Physics 5A.
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