Physics
Video Lectures - Einstein's Relativity and the Quantum Revolution: Modern Physics for Non-Scientists
Publisher: Teaching Company, 2005, 24pp, 2nd ed.
"It doesn't take an Einstein to understand modern physics," says Professor Richard Wolfson at the outset of this course on what may be the most important subject in the universe. Relativity and quantum physics touch the very basis of physical reality, altering our commonsense notions of space and time, cause and effect. Both have reputations for complexity. But the basic ideas behind relativity and quantum physics are, in fact, simple and comprehensible by anyone.
Lectures
| 1. | Time Travel, Tunneling, Tennis, and Tea |
| 2. | Heaven and Earth, Place and Motion |
| 3. | The Clockwork Universe |
| 4. | Let There Be Light! |
| 5. | Speed c Relative to What? |
| 6. | Earth and the Ether—A Crisis in Physics |
| 7. | Einstein to the Rescue |
| 8. | Uncommon Sense—Stretching Time |
| 9. | Muons and Time-Traveling Twins |
| 10. | Escaping Contradiction—Simultaneity Is Relative |
| 11. | Faster than Light? Past, Future, and Elsewhere |
| 12. | What about E=mc² and Is Everything Relative? |
| 13. | A Problem of Gravity |
| 14. | Curved Spacetime |
| 15. | Black Holes |
| 16. | Into the Heart of Matter |
| 17. | Enter the Quantum |
| 18. | Wave or Particle? |
| 19. | Quantum Uncertainty—Farewell to Determinism |
| 20. | Particle or Wave? |
| 21. | Quantum Weirdness and Schrödinger's Cat |
| 22. | The Particle Zoo |
| 23. | Cosmic Connections |
| 24. | Toward a Theory of Everything |