HPS 0410 Einstein for Everyone

HPS 0410

Einstein for Everyone

Spring 2015

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	Lectures Stable, Archived version of chapters, January 1, 2015.	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 Special Relativity: the Principles Special Relativity: Clocks and Rods 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 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. Skeptical Morals. Morals About Theory and Evidence. Morals About Time. Non-Euclidean Geometry Euclidean Geometry: The First Great Science Euclid's Fifth Postulate Non-Euclidean Geometry: A Sample Construction Non-Euclidean Geometry and Curved Spaces Spaces of Constant Curvature Spaces of Variable Curvature General Relativity General Relativity Gravity Near a Massive Body Einstein's Pathway to General Relativity Cosmology and Black Holes Relativistic Cosmology Time Travel Universes Our Universe: What We See Big Bang Cosmology Must There Have Been a Big Bang? Black Holes A Better Picture of Black Holes Philosophical Significance of the General Theory of Relativity. Geometric Morals and a few more Quantum Theory Atoms and the Quantum Origins of Quantum Theory Quantum Theory of Waves and Particles The Measurement Problem Einstein on the Completeness of Quantum Theory Retrospect Einstein as the Greatest of the Nineteenth Century Physicists	0. Warm Up 1. Principle of Relativity 2. Relativity of Simultaneity 3. E=mc² 4. Origins of Special Relativity 5. Spacetime 6. Philosophical Significance 7. Curvature 8. General Relativity 9. Relativistic Cosmology 10. Big Bang Cosmology 11. Black Holes 12. Origins of Quantum Theory 13. Problems of Quantum Theory

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