MIT STS.042J Einstein, Oppenheimer, Feynman: Physics In The 20th Century, Fall 2020
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MIT STS.042J Einstein, Oppenheimer, Feynman: Physics In The 20th Century, Fall 2020
25 lessons
• 31.5 hours
MIT STS.042J Einstein, Oppenheimer, Feynman: Physics In The 20th Century, Fall 2020
25 lessons
• 31.5 hours
- Lecture 1: Introduction to Einstein, Oppenheimer, Feynman: Physics in the 20th Century 30:37
- Lecture 2: Faraday, Thomson, and Maxwell: Lines of Force in the Ether 01:19:19
- Lecture 3: Worldviews, Wranglers, and the Making of Theoretical Physicists 01:17:55
- Lecture 4: Waves in the Ether 01:13:04
- Lecture 5: Einstein and Experiment 01:20:19
- Lecture 6: Reception of Special Relativity 01:16:21
- Lecture 7: A Political History of Gravity 01:19:35
- Lecture 8: Rethinking Light 01:20:22
- Lecture 9: Rethinking Matter 01:22:18
- Lecture 10: Matrices and Uncertainty 01:21:00
- Lecture 11: Waves and Probabilities 01:20:37
- Lecture 12: Quantum Weirdness: Schrödinger’s Cat, EPR, and Bell’s Theorem 01:16:11
- Lecture 13: Physics under Hitler 01:19:33
- Lecture 14: Radar and the Manhattan Project 01:17:44
- Optional Discussion: The Day After Trinity 01:06:58
- Lecture 16: Secrecy and Security in the Nuclear Age 01:28:25
- Optional Discussion: Containment 42:14
- Lecture 18: Coldwar Classroom: Teaching Quantum Theory in Postwar American Physics 01:23:15
- Lecture 19: Counterculture and Physics 01:23:26
- Lecture 20: A Conservative Revolution: QED and Renormalization 01:16:11
- Lecture 21: Teaching Feynman's Tools: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics 01:19:41
- Lecture 22: Quarks, QCD, and the Rise of the Standard Model 01:12:20
- Lecture 23: The Birth of Particle Cosmology 01:19:51
- Lecture 24: The Big Bang, Cosmic Inflation, and the Latest Observations 01:22:25
- Lecture 25: String Theory and the Multiverse 01:22:36
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