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Einstein's relativity and the quantum revolution : modern physics for non-scientists

Title
Einstein's relativity and the quantum revolution : modern physics for non-scientists / the Teaching Company.
Publication
Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., ©2000.

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Additional Authors
  • Wolfson, Richard.
  • Burgstaller, Andreas.
  • Teaching Company.
Description
4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in. +
Summary
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.
Series Statement
Great courses, Science & mathematics
Uniform Title
Great courses (Videorecording)
Alternative Title
Modern physics for non-scientists
Subject
  • Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955
  • Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955
  • Physics
  • Motion
  • Waves
  • Gravitation
  • Space and time
  • Relativity (Physics)
  • Quantum theory
  • Heisenberg uncertainty principle
  • Schrödinger equation
  • Relativistic quantum theory
  • Wave mechanics
  • Physics
  • Motion
  • Gravitation
  • Quantum Theory
  • physics
  • motion
  • Heisenberg uncertainty principle
  • Quantum theory
  • Relativistic quantum theory
  • Schrödinger equation
  • Space and time
  • Wave mechanics
  • Waves
Genre/Form
  • Educational videos.
  • lectures.
  • Nonfiction films
  • Lectures
  • Educational films
  • Lectures.
  • Nonfiction films.
  • Conférences.
  • Films autres que de fiction.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-158).
Credits (note)
  • Producer, Andreas Burgstaller ; editor, Sal Rodriguez ; content supervisor, Robert Cosgriff.
System Details (note)
  • DVD.
Contents
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.
ISBN
  • 1565855655
  • 9781565855656
  • 9791565855655
LCCN
  • 9791565855655
  • 9781565855656
OCLC
  • ocm52767473
  • 52767473
  • SCSB-1475468
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library