Einstein's Relativity and the Quantum Revolution : Modern Physics for Non-Scientists. [Part II]

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Course no. 153.
Course guide includes an outline of each lecture, bibliographical references, and diagrams used in the lectures.
Lecture 13. A problem of gravity -- Lecture 14. Curved spacetime -- Lecture 15. Black holes -- Lecture 16. Into the heart of matter -- Lecture 17. Enter the quantum -- Lecture 18. Wave or particle? -- Lecture 19. Quantum uncertainty : farewell to determinism -- Lecture 20. Particle or wave? -- Lecture 21. Quantum weirdness and Schrödinger's cat -- Lecture 22. The particle zoo -- Lecture 23. Cosmic connections -- Lecture 24. Toward a theory of everything.
Topics include Einstein's theory of gravity; curved spacetime; black holes; twentieth-century models of atomic matter; the photoelectric effect; the quantum; light as both wave and particle; the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and the Copenhagen interpretation; Schrödinger's cat example; quantum superposition and the collapse of the wave function; neutrons, protons, quarks and their behavior; the Big Bang and the expansion of the universe; string theory.
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