| Week |
Lecture Date |
Lecture Topic |
Video |
1
|
Thurs. Aug. 20 |
Introduction:
the questions. |
|
2
|
Tues. Aug. 25 |
Special
Relativity: the Principles.
Special
Relativity: Clocks and Rods |
|
|
Thurs. Aug 27. |
Special
Relativity: Adding Velocities.
Relativity
of simultaneity |
|
3
|
Tues. Sept. 1
|
Is
special relativity paradoxical? |
|
|
Thurs. Sept. 3
|
E=mc2 |
|
|
4.
|
Tues. Sept. 8 |
Origins
of special relativity
Einstein's
Pathway to Special Relativity |
|
|
Thurs. Sept. 10 |
Spacetime
Spacetime
and the Relativity of Simultaneity |
|
5.
|
Tues. Sept. 15 |
Spacetime
and the Relativity of Simultaneity
Spacetime,
Tachyons, Twins and Clocks |
|
|
Thurs. Sept. 17 |
Skeptical
Morals.
Morals
About Theory and Evidence. |
|
6
|
Tues. Sept. 22 |
Morals
About Theory and Evidence.
Morals
About Time. |
|
|
Thurs. Sept. 24 |
Euclidean
Geometry: The First Great Science
Non-Euclidean
Geometry: A Sample Construction
Non-Euclidean
Geometry and Curved Spaces
|
|
7
|
Tues. Sept. 29 |
Spaces
of Constant Curvature
Spaces
of Variable Curvature
|
|
|
Thurs. Oct. 1 |
General
relativity
|
|
8
|
Tues. Oct. 6 |
General
relativity
Gravity
Near a Massive Body
|
|
|
Thurs. Oct. 8 |
Gravity
Near a Massive Body
Relativistic
cosmology
|
|
9
|
Tues. Oct. 13. |
Relativistic
cosmology
Time
Travel Universes |
|
|
Thurs. Oct. 15 |
Our
Universe: What We See |
|
|
10
|
Tues. Oct. 20 |
Big
bang cosmology |
|
|
Thurs. Oct. 22 |
Big
bang cosmology
Must
There Have Been a Big Bang? |
|
11
|
Tues. Oct 27 |
Einstein's
Pathway to General Relativity |
|
|
Thurs. Oct. 29 |
Black
holes
|
Failed
launch |
12
|
Tues. Nov. 3 |
A
Better Picture of Black Holes |
|
|
Thurs. Nov. 5 |
Origins
of Quantum Theory |
|
13
|
Tues. Nov. 10 |
Origins
of Quantum Theory |
|
|
Thurs. Nov. 12 |
Quantum
Theory of Waves and Particles |
|
| 14 |
Tues. Nov. 17 |
The
Measurement Problem |
|
|
Thurs. Nov. 19 |
Einstein
on the Completeness of Quantum Theory |
|
