| Description |
1 online resource (24 video files (approximately 731 min.)) : sound, color. |
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digital rda |
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video file rda |
| Contents |
Episode 1 Time Travel, Tunneling, Tennis, and Tea Episode 2 Heaven and Earth, Place and Motion Episode 3 The Clockwork Universe Episode 4 Let There Be Light! Episode 5 Speed c Relative to What? Episode 6 Earth and the Ether - A Crisis in Physics Episode 7 Einstein to the Rescue Episode 8 Uncommon Sense - Stretching Time Episode 9 Muons and Time-Traveling Twins Episode 10 Escaping Contradiction - Simultaneity Is Relative Episode 11 Faster than Light? Past, Future, and Elsewhere Episode 12 What about E=mc² and Is Everything Relative? Episode 13 A Problem of Gravity Episode 14 Curved Spacetime Episode 15 Black Holes Episode 16 Into the Heart of Matter Episode 17 Enter the Quantum Episode 18 Wave or Particle? Episode 19 Quantum Uncertainty - Farewell to Determinism Episode 20 Particle or Wave? Episode 21 Quantum Weirdness and Schrödinger's Cat Episode 22 The Particle Zoo Episode 23 Cosmic Connections Episode 24 Toward a Theory of Everything. |
| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Credits |
Directed by The Great Courses. |
| Cast |
Richard Wolfson. |
| Summary |
With scientists perhaps on the verge of unlocking the deepest secrets of the universe and with breaking news of discovery after discovery at the frontiers of research, understanding physics has never been so important. This course puts the awe-inspiring - and at times mind-bending - concepts behind relativity and quantum mechanics within reach of anyone who wants to understand them. |
| Audience |
Rated TVPG. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Added Author |
hoopla digital.
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| Music No. |
MWT14865619 |
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