Pocket calculator, drawing compasses, ruler, pencils, right triangle, notebook.

Creasey and Mann, The Second Creation
Smolin, The Life of the Cosmos
Finkelstein, Notes

Quizzes and final: 20 points each.
Before curving 90 = A, 80 = B, 65 = C, 50 = D.
Classroom participation and/or term paper by arrangement with DRF: 20 points.

Revolutionary physics. Special relativity, general relativity, quantum physics, and future physics. We take up their concepts and laws, reaching from the subnuclear to the cosmic domains, qualitatively and graphically.

I. The relativity of time
1 Light and lightspeed
2 Boosts
3 The twin paradox
4 Physical constructs of mechanics

Sept. 20 Quiz 1

II. The relativity of acceleration
5 How spacetime acts on matter
6 Spacetime curvature
7 How matter acts on spacetime
8 Black holes and white

Oct. 17 Quiz 2

III. The relativity of state
9 Polarization logic
10 Two-slit paradox
11 Quantum dynamics
12 Spin, statistics, symmetry

Nov. 14 Quiz 3

IV. The next relativity
13 String theory (Mon holiday)
14 Cosmic evolution
15 Other theories
16 Review
Final