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Einstein's relativity and the quantum revolution : modern physics for non-scientists
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Examines the study of motion through the path of modern discovery of relativity, quantum phenomena and the consequences of these discoveries for our understanding of space, time and the universe in...
Examines the study of motion through the path of modern discovery of relativity, quantum phenomena and the consequences of these discoveries for our understanding of space, time and the universe in a series of 24 lectures each approximately 30 minutes.
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- Creator
- Richard Wolfson
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Second edition
- Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., [2000]
- ©2000
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (71 pages each ; 22 cm.)
- ISBNs
- 1565855655, 9781565855656, 9791565855655
- OCLC
- ocm52767473
- Credits
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- Lecturer: Richard Wolfson
- In two containers.
- DVD, region 1.
- disc 1. Time travel, tunneling, tennis and tea ; Heaven and earth, place and motion ; The clockwork universe ; Let there be light! ; Speed "c" relative to what? ; Earth and the ether: a crisis in physics -- disc 2. Einstein to the rescue ; Uncommon sense: stretching time ; Muons and time-traveling twins ; Escaping contradiction: simultaneity is relative ; Faster than light? Past, future, and elsewhere ; What about E=Mc², and is everything relative? -- disc 3. A problem of gravity ; Curved spacetime ; Black holes ; Into the heart of matter ; Enter the quantum ; Wave or particle? -- disc 4. Quantum uncertainty: farewell to determinism ; Particle or wave? ; Quantum weirdness and Schrödinger's cat ; The particle zoo ; Cosmic connections ; Toward a theory of everything