Section A06: How Things Work
Why don't you fall off an upside-down roller coaster?
What is the difference between a flashlight and laser? How do microwave ovens cook? How does an iPod turn binary digits into your favorite music? Our world is filled with amazing technologies. This course will take you inside the things that you experience in your everyday life, and you will examine various things from roller coasters to lasers to iPod and will gain knowledge of the physics that explains how they work. There is no pre-requisite for this course, but you need to have an active curiosity about the world around you and how things work.