Information Package / Course Catalogue
History of Science
Course Code: FİZ233
Course Type: Area Elective
Couse Group: First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 3
Prt.: 0
Credit: 3
Lab: 0
ECTS: 4
Objectives of the Course

To observe the meaning and the importance of science and physics by concerning the evaluation of them until today through different periods of history in the meaning of science generally and physics specially.

Course Content

The origin of the thoughts of ancient human and connection between it and produce devices and study, Mesopotamia and Egyptian’s civilization’s thoughts and the effects of them on development of forthcoming scientific thoughts, The discussion of the origin of ancient Greek civilization and first scientific thoughts and the fact that why they didn’t be created elsewhere, The features of the thoughts of Ionia, Athens, Alexandria, The comparison of the character of the science in west and in east in the middle age, The contributions of scientists such as Planck, Einstein, Rutherford, Bohr, Dirac, Fermi, Heisenberg, de Broglie.

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