Directed by The Great Courses

Richard Wolfson

With scientists perhaps on the verge of unlocking the deepest secrets of the universe and with breaking news of discovery after discovery at the frontiers of research, understanding physics has never been so important. This course puts the awe-inspiring - and at times mind-bending - concepts behind relativity and quantum mechanics within reach of anyone who wants to understand them

Rated TVPG

Mode of access: World Wide Web

Episode 1

Time Travel, Tunneling, Tennis, and Tea

Episode 2

Heaven and Earth, Place and Motion

Episode 3

The Clockwork Universe

Episode 4

Let There Be Light!

Episode 5

Speed c Relative to What?

Episode 6

Earth and the Ether - A Crisis in Physics

Episode 7

Einstein to the Rescue

Episode 8

Uncommon Sense - Stretching Time

Episode 9

Muons and Time-Traveling Twins

Episode 10

Escaping Contradiction - Simultaneity Is Relative

Episode 11

Faster than Light? Past, Future, and Elsewhere

Episode 12

What about E=mc² and Is Everything Relative?

Episode 13

A Problem of Gravity

Episode 14

Curved Spacetime

Episode 15

Black Holes

Episode 16

Into the Heart of Matter

Episode 17

Enter the Quantum

Episode 18

Wave or Particle?

Episode 19

Quantum Uncertainty - Farewell to Determinism

Episode 20

Particle or Wave?

Episode 21

Quantum Weirdness and Schrödinger's Cat

Episode 22

The Particle Zoo

Episode 23

Cosmic Connections

Episode 24

Toward a Theory of Everything