About this Course
On this course we are going to search to “perceive Einstein,” particularly specializing in the particular idea of relativity that Albert Einstein, as a twenty-six 12 months outdated patent clerk, launched in his “miracle 12 months” of 1905. Our aim will likely be to go behind the myth-making and past the popularized shows of relativity so as to achieve a deeper understanding of each Einstein the individual and the ideas, predictions, and unusual paradoxes of his idea. A number of the questions we are going to handle embrace: How did Einstein give you his concepts? What was the character of his genius? What’s the that means of relativity? What’s “particular” in regards to the particular idea of relativity? Why did the idea initially appear to be lifeless on arrival? What does it imply to say that point is the “fourth dimension”? Can time really run extra slowly for one individual than one other, and the dimensions of issues change relying on their velocity? Is time journey potential, and in that case, how? Why can’t issues journey quicker than the velocity of sunshine? Is it potential to journey to the middle of the galaxy and return in a single lifetime? Is there any proof that definitively confirms the idea, or is it primarily hypothesis? Why didn’t Einstein win the Nobel Prize for the idea of relativity?
Concerning the teacher: Dr. Larry Lagerstrom is the Director of Educational Applications at Stanford College’s Heart for Skilled Growth, which provides graduate certificates in topics resembling synthetic intelligence, cyber safety, information mining, nanotechnology, innovation, and administration science. He holds levels in physics, arithmetic, and the historical past of science, has revealed a e book and a TED Ed video on “Younger Einstein: From the Doxerl Affair to the Miracle 12 months,” and has had over 30,000 college students worldwide enroll in his on-line course on the particular idea of relativity (this course!).
Syllabus – What you’ll be taught from this course
5 hours to finish
Introduction to the Course, and Einstein in Context
Week 1: Introduction to the Course, and Einstein in Context
11 hours to finish
Occasions, Clocks, and Reference Frames
Week 2: Occasions, Clocks, and Reference Frames
10 hours to finish
Ethereal Issues and Options
Week 3: Ethereal Issues and Options
12 hours to finish
The Weirdness Begins
Week 4: The Weirdness Begins
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