The document outlines the timeline of physics from ancient history to the modern era, highlighting key figures and their contributions. It emphasizes the importance of physics in studying matter, energy, and their interactions through various theories and discoveries. Key figures mentioned include Archimedes, Isaac Newton, and Albert Einstein among others.

2. Ancient History

3. Introduction:
Everything in the universe moves and interacts, and forces
play a big part in that. Physics studies those forces and
interactions. Physics the study of matter, energy, and the
interaction between them.

4. Timeline of physics
• 500 – 1 BC -Archimedes, Aristotle Heliocentric theory, geometry
• 1 – 1300 AD -Al-hazen, Ptolemy in Egypt Optics, geocentric theory
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• 1301 – 1499 -Leonardo de Vinci, Nicolas Cusanus Earth is in
motion,Occam’s Razor
• 1500 – 1599 -Nicolaus Copernicus,Tycho Brahe Heliocentric theory
revived, astronomy
• 1600 – 1650 -Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler Telescope,laws of
planetary motion

5. Timeline of physics. Continued
• 1651 – 1699 Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle Newtons Laws,
optics, Gas Laws
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• 1700 – 1750 Daniel Bernoulli, Edmund Halley
Thermodynamics, corpuscular theory
• 1751 – 1799 Coulomb, Henry Cavendish Gravitational
constant, specific heats
• 1800 – 1830 Thomas Young, Michael Faraday Interference t,
magnetic field
• 1831 – 1860 Lord Kelvin, James Clerk Maxwell Theory of heat,
Doppler Effect

6. Timeline of Physics. Continued
• 1861 – 1899 Wilhelm Roentgen, Henri Becquerel The ether, X-rays,
radioactivity
• 1900 – 1920 Max Planck, Albert Einstein’s Quantum Mechanics,
special relativity
• 1921 – 1940 Enrico Fermi, Werner Heisenberg
Accelerators,uncertainty principle
• 1941 – 1960 Richard Feynman, Edward Teller Nuclear Bomb, Lasers,
the big bang
• 1961 – 1980 Murray Gell-Mann, Stephen Hawking First man on the
moon, black holes

7. Timeline of physics. Continued

9. Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOpQufNcx0I

11. Answers
1. Physics is the study of the forces and interactions between
the moving things in the universe.
2. Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Galileo Galilei
3. Galileo Galilei
4. E=mc2

12. References
• Phys.kent, retrieved 31st January, 2014,
http://phys.kent.edu/~manley/physicists.html
• Physics ,retrieved 31st January, 2014, http://www.physics.org/article-
questions.asp?id=18
• Physics, retrieved 3rd February, 2015,
http://www.physics.ie/resources/physics-timeline/