Einstein's Relativity and the Quantum Revolution: Modern Physics for Non-Scientists, 2nd Edition

Course No. 153 (24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture)
Taught by Richard Wolfson
Middlebury College
Ph.D., Dartmouth College
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 Schrodinger's Cat
22. The Particle Zoo
23. Cosmic Connections
24. Toward a Theory of Everything