HPS 0410 Einstein for Everyone

HPS 0410

Einstein for Everyone

Fall 2008

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	Lectures	Assignments
Course Description Schedule Term paper Sign in sheet	Title page, Preface and Table of Contents for Einstein for Everyone Introduction: the questions Special relativity: the basics Is special relativity paradoxical? E=mc² Origins of Special Relativity Spacetime What is a four dimensional space like? Philosophical Significance of the Special Theory of Relativity. Non-Euclidean Geometry Euclid's Postulates and Some Non-Euclidean Alternatives Spaces of Variable Curvature General Relativity Relativistic Cosmology Big Bang Cosmology Black Holes A Better Picture of Black Holes Atoms and the Quantum Origins of Quantum Theory Problems of Quantum Theory	1. The Wild and the Wonderful 2. Principle of Relativity 3. Relativity of Simultaneity 4. Energy, Mass and Adding Velocities 5. Origins of Special Relativity 6. Spacetime 7. Philosophical Significance 8. Non-Euclidean Geometry 9. Curvature 10. General Relativity 11. Relativistic Cosmology 12. Big Bang Cosmology 13. Black Holes 14. Origins of Quantum Theory 15. Problems of Quantum Theory

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Last update: August 23, 2008.