HPS 0410 Einstein for Everyone

HPS 0410

Einstein for Everyone

Spring 2012

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	Lectures Stable, Archived version of chapters, January 1, 2013.	Assignments
Course Description Schedule Term paper Clock Sign in sheet	Title page, Preface and Table of Contents for Einstein for Everyone Introduction: the questions Special relativity: the basics Special relativity: adding velocities Special relativity: the relativity of simultaneity Is special relativity paradoxical? E=mc² Origins of Special Relativity Einstein's Pathway to Special Relativity Spacetime Spacetime and the Relativity of Simultaneity Spacetime, Tachyons, Twins and Clocks What is a four dimensional space like? Philosophical Significance of the Special Theory of Relativity. Euclidean Geometry: The First Great Science Non-Euclidean Geometry: A Sample Construction Spaces of Constant Curvature Spaces of Variable Curvature General Relativity Gravity Near a Massive Body Einstein's Pathway to General Relativity Relativistic Cosmology Big Bang Cosmology Black Holes A Better Picture of Black Holes Atoms and the Quantum Origins of Quantum Theory Quantum Theory of Waves and Particles The Measurement Problem Einstein on the Completeness of Quantum Theory Einstein as the Greatest of the Nineteenth Century Physicists	1. Principle of Relativity 2. Adding Velocities Einstein's Way 3. Relativity of Simultaneity 4. Origins of Special Relativity 5. Spacetime 6. Philosophical Significance 7. Non-Euclidean Geometry 8. Curvature 9. General Relativity 10. Relativistic Cosmology 11. Big Bang Cosmology 12. Black Holes 13. Origins of Quantum Theory 14. Problems of Quantum Theory

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