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HPS 2814 Einstein Spring 2023

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Your preferred distribution of readings as a percentage:

    Special Relativity     Discovery of General Relativity     General Relativity Developed 

    Statistical Physics     Contributions to Quantum Theory     Critique of Quantum Theory 

    Unified Field Theory     Einstein and Philosophy of Science     Einstein More Broadly


Special Relativity

 X   1905: Special Relativity

     E=mc2

     Ether theoretic background to special relativity

     Dynamical Relativity

The Discovery of General Relativity

     1907-1912: Principle of Equivalence, a Novel Theory of Static Fields

     1913: The Entwurf theory

     1913-1915: General Relativity Attained

     The Zurich Notebook

     Einstein-Besso Manuscript

     A Matter of Principles

     The Hole Argument

General Relativity Developed

     The Einstein Universe: The First Cosmological Solution

     The Einstein-De Sitter Debate

     Gravitational Waves

     Einstein and Singularities

     Einstein and Geometrization

Statistical Physics

     The Statistical Papers: 1901-1904

     1905: Sugar Solutions and Brownian Motion


Contributions to Quantum Theory

     The Light Quantum

     Wave-Particle Duality

     The A and B Coefficient Paper

Critique of Quantum Theory

     Einstein's Debate with Bohr

     The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paper "EPR"

Unified Field Theory

     Unified Field Theory

Einstein and Philosophy of Science

     Theories as "free creations of the human spirit"

     Constructive versus Principle Theories

     Einstein's Platonism

     Hume and Mach

     Einstein's Thought Experiments

     Einstein's falsificationism

     Einstein on Kant

Einstein, More Broadly

     Einstein and Religion

     Einstein as Patent Examiner and Inventor

     Einstein's FBI File

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