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MIT STS.042J Einstein, Oppenheimer, Feynman: Physics In The 20th Century, Fall 2020

by MIT OpenCourseWare · 25 videos

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1 Lecture 1: Introduction to Einstein, Oppenheimer, Feynman: Physics in the 20th Century 30:37 2023-08-22
2 Lecture 2: Faraday, Thomson, and Maxwell: Lines of Force in the Ether 1:19:19 2023-08-22
3 Lecture 3: Worldviews, Wranglers, and the Making of Theoretical Physicists 1:17:55 2023-08-22
4 Lecture 4: Waves in the Ether 1:13:04 2023-08-22
5 Lecture 5: Einstein and Experiment 1:20:19 2023-08-22
6 Lecture 6: Reception of Special Relativity 1:16:21 2023-08-22
7 Lecture 7: A Political History of Gravity 1:19:35 2023-08-22
8 Lecture 8: Rethinking Light 1:20:22 2023-08-22
9 Lecture 9: Rethinking Matter 1:22:18 2023-08-22
10 Lecture 10: Matrices and Uncertainty 1:21:00 2023-08-22
11 Lecture 11: Waves and Probabilities 1:20:37 2023-08-22
12 Lecture 12: Quantum Weirdness: Schrödinger’s Cat, EPR, and Bell’s Theorem 1:16:11 2023-08-22
13 Lecture 13: Physics under Hitler 1:19:33 2023-08-22
14 Lecture 14: Radar and the Manhattan Project 1:17:44 2023-08-22
15 Optional Discussion: The Day After Trinity 1:06:58 2023-08-22
16 Lecture 16: Secrecy and Security in the Nuclear Age 1:28:25 2023-08-22
17 Optional Discussion: Containment 42:14 2023-08-22
18 Lecture 18: Coldwar Classroom: Teaching Quantum Theory in Postwar American Physics 1:23:15 2023-08-22
19 Lecture 19: Counterculture and Physics 1:23:26 2023-08-22
20 Lecture 20: A Conservative Revolution: QED and Renormalization 1:16:11 2023-08-22
21 Lecture 21: Teaching Feynman's Tools: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics 1:19:41 2023-08-22
22 Lecture 22: Quarks, QCD, and the Rise of the Standard Model 1:12:20 2023-08-22
23 Lecture 23: The Birth of Particle Cosmology 1:19:51 2023-08-22
24 Lecture 24: The Big Bang, Cosmic Inflation, and the Latest Observations 1:22:25 2023-08-22
25 Lecture 25: String Theory and the Multiverse 1:22:36 2023-08-22

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