Einstein's relativity & the quantum revolution /
"Professor Wolfson begins with a brief overview of theories of physical reality starting with Aristotle and culminating in Newtonian or 'classical' physics. Then he outlines the logic that led to Einstein's theory of special relativity, and the simple yet far-reaching insight on...
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| Format: | CD Audio Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chantilly, VA :
Teaching Co.,
[2001]
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| Series: | Great courses (Compact disc)
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Table of Contents:
- pt. I. lecture 1. Time travel, tunneling, tennis, and tea ; lecture 2. Heaven and earth, place and motion ; lecture 3. The clockwork universe ; lecture 4. Let there be light! ; lecture 5. Speed c relative to what? ; lecture 6. Earth and the ether : a crisis in physics ; lecture 7. Einstein to the rescue ; lecture 8. Uncommon sense : stretching time ; lecture 9. Muons and time-traveling twins ; lecture 10. Escaping contradiction : simultaneity is relative ; lecture 11. Faster than light? Past, future, and elsewhere ; lecture 12. What about E=mc², and is everything relative?
- pt. II. lecture 13. A problem of gravity ; lecture 14. Curved spacetime ; lecture 15. Black holes ; lecture 16. Into the heart of matter ; lecture 17. Enter the quantum ; lecture 18. Wave or particle? ; lecture 19. Quantum uncertainty : farewell to determinism ; lecture 20. Particle or wave? ; lecture 21. Quantum weirdness and Schrödinger's cat ; lecture 22. The particle zoo ; lecture 23. Cosmic connections ; lecture 24. Toward a theory of everything.