Strange beautiful grass of green: LMU Summer 2014 “Einstein for Everyone”

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Thursdays, 14:00–16:00 C.T., Ludwigstr. 31, 021

Dr. Erik Curiel
email: Erik.Curiel at-sign lrz.uni-muench.de
office: Ludwigstr. 23, R126
office hours: by appointment

Course Summary
Schedule of Lectures and Associated Readings
Suggested Paper Topics

Readings
Lectures
Problem Sets

© Elizabeth Chiles 2009

I. Cohen, The Birth of a New Physics (chapter 7)
A. Einstein, “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies”
A. Einstein, “On the Relativity Problem”
A. Einstein, “Concerning an Heuristic Point of View toward the Emission and Transformation of Light”
A. Einstein, B. Podolsky and N. Rosen, “Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?”
R. Geroch, General Relativity from A to B
M. Janssen, “19th Century Ether”
M. Janssen, “Appendix on Special Relativity”
C. Smeenk, “Einstein's Role in the Creation of Relativistic Cosmology”

Lecture 1: “Introduction and Overview of Course” (April 10)
Lecture 2: “Historical Background; Einstein's Path to Special Relativity” (April 24)
Lecture 3: “Overview of Special Relativity” (May 08)
Lecture 4: “Special Relativity: ‘Paradoxes’ and Minkowski Spacetime” (May 15)
Lecture 5: “E = mc² and the Philosophical Significance of Special Relativity” (May 29)
Lecture 6: “Introduction to General Relativity” (June 26)
Lecture 6: “General Relativity and Cosmology” (July 03)

Problem Set 1: Special Relativity

© Erik Curiel 2014 ☠