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Welcome back to 8.033! Emmy Noether 1882-1935 Image courtesy of Wikipedia.

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Page 1: Welcome back to 8.033! - MIT OpenCourseWare...Emmy Noether 1882-1935 Image courtesy of Wikipedia. MIT Course 8.033, Fall 2006, Lecture 2 Max Tegmark PRACTICAL STUFF: • PS1 due Friday

Welcomeback

to 8.033!

Emmy Noether

1882-1935Image courtesy of Wikipedia.

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MIT Course 8.033, Fall 2006, Lecture 2 Max Tegmark

PRACTICAL STUFF:

• PS1 due Friday 4PM • Symmetry notes posted

TODAY’S TOPIC: SYMMETRY IN PHYSICS

• Key concepts: frame, inertial frame, transformation, invariant, invariance, symmetry, relativity

• Key people: Galileo Galileo, Emmy Noether

• Symmetry examples: translation, rotation, parity, boost

• Million Dollar question: what are the symmetries of physics?

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What do we mean by symmetry?

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WHAT’S THE SYMMETRY OF THE UNIVERSE?

OF PHYSICS?

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WHAT’S THE SYMMETRY

OFCLASSICAL

MECHANICS?

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SO WHICH DO YOU TRUST MORE:

Classical Mechanics, or E&M?