Einstein's relativity and the quantum revolution [videorecording]. Part 1 and Part 2 : modern physics for non-scientists / taught by Richard Wolfson.
Takes the viewer from the early 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 1565855655
- ISBN: 9781565855656
- ISBN: 9791565855655
- Physical Description: 4 videodiscs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 158 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm).
- Publisher: Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, [2000]
- Copyright: ©2000
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Part 1 of 2. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Disc 1 of part 2 A problem of gravity -- curved spacetime -- Black holes -- Into the heart of matter -- Enter the Quantum -- Wave or Particle? 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 of part 2 Quantum uncertainly-farewell to determinism -- Particle or Wave? -- Quantum weirdness and Schrodinger's cat -- The particle zoo -- Cosmic connections -- Toward a theory of everything. 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? |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Lecturer: Richard Wolfson, Middlebury College. |
| System Details Note: | DVD, region 1. |
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| Subject: | Quantum theory. Relativity (Physics) Space and time. |
| Genre: | Video recordings. |
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