A 10-week extra-mural course, presented by the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow. Commencing January 2008 |
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A 10-week extra-mural course, presented by the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow. Commencing January 2008 |
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| Lecture
1: 14/01/08 |
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file |
ppt
file |
| Lecture
2: 21/01/08 |
pdf
file |
ppt
file biography |
| Lecture
3: 28/01/08 |
pdf
file |
ppt
file |
| Lecture
4: 04/02/08 |
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file |
ppt
file |
| Lecture
5: 11/02/08 |
pdf
file |
ppt
file |
| Lecture
6: 18/02/08 |
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file |
ppt
file |
| Lecture
7: 25/02/08 |
pdf
file |
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| Lecture
8: 03/03/08 |
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| Lecture
9: 10/03/08 |
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file |
ppt
file |
| Lecture
10: 31/03/08 |
pdf
file |
ppt
file |
| sound
file 1 |
sound
file 2 |
Associated Movies
Some of the course presentations include movies; these are not embedded within the power point or pdf files.| Einstein
arrives in Pasadena |
download |
| Subway
train leaving station |
download |
| Microwaving
marshmallows |
download |
| Apollo
15 astronaut David Scott dropping the hammer and feather |
download |
| Animation
of the inner solar system |
download |
Links
to other resources
| The Time Magazine Person
of the
Century poll |
| Wikipedia
entry on the "Time 100" |
| Physics World
"greatest
physicists" poll |
| "Extreme Astrophysics": link
to a
previous DACE course, including (in Lecture 1) material on the scale of
the Universe. (note: username and password are 'extreme') |
| Comprehensive lecture
notes on general relativity and gravitational wave detection.
(Warning: 96 pages, highly mathematical and not for the faint
hearted! These lectures were written for a European Graduate
Summer School on gravitational waves) |
| Some useful further
reading, suggested by Robert Barclay |
| Extract
from spacetime
physics, discussing the invariance of the spacetime
interval via analogy with spatial measurements. |
| Scholarly article
by H.R. Brown, on the origins of SR |
| Anthony Searle's website on
"Visualising
Relativity" |
| Audio
file of Einstein describing Special Relativity |
| NOVA docudrama on Einstein and
Special Relativity: pdf file of transcript Link to NOVA homepage |
| Pole in the barn paradox: link
to a useful way of visualising this |
| Wikipedia page on Lorentz
transformations. ((Careful reading of this will help
to explain the orientation of the blue and red axes in the pole in the
barn diagrams, although the maths is rather complicated). |
| Wikipedia page on Inertial
Frames of Reference |
| Counting Thoughts page on their "Weigh the
World" challenge |
| SecEd coverage
of the "Weigh the World" challenge |
| Wikipedia page on the Pound Rebka
experiment |
| Home
page of the Global Positioning System |
| "Moon
Hoax" theory resources: PPT file and movie clips. (username = 'public', password = "outreach") |
| Wikipedia page on gravitational assist
(slingshot) orbits |
| Einstein''s Glasgow
lecture on the origins of General Relativity |
| Homepage of the Gravity Probe
B mission |
| Wikipedia page on frame dragging |
| Article
on the history of dark energy |
| Recent "In
Our Time" Radio 4 programme on the Multiverse |
| Wikipedia page on Newton"s "Opticks", including
links to online copies |
| Wikipedia page on Black Body Radiation |
| Einstein"s
1905 paper
on light quanta |
| Wikipedia page on the "Double slit
experiment" |
| Wikipedia page on Schrodinger's
Cat |
| The EPR Paradox paper |
| The Bell Inequality paper
which followed on from EPR |
| Alain Aspect's paper
on experimental tests of Bell's Inequality |
| Recent Physics World article on
quantum reality |
| Wikipedia page on Interpretations
of Quantum Mechanics |
| John Cramer's Transactional
Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics |