Einstein's relativity & the quantum revolution - Wolfson, Richard; Teaching Company (Springfield, VA Teaching Co., 1999)
pt. 1. 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=mc¬?, and is everything relative? -- pt. 2. 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 SchroÃàdinger's cat ; lecture 22. The particle zoo ; lecture 23. Cosmic connections ; lecture 24. Toward a theory of everything.
Teaching Co.: 151A--152A.
In 2 containers (26 cm.).
Richard Wolfson, lecturer.
Keywords: Einstein, Albert -- 1879-1955.; Relativity (Physics); Space and time; Quantum theory