Show Notes
- Amazon USA Store: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DTNWGP2?tag=9natree-20
- Amazon Worldwide Store: https://global.buys.trade/Einstein%26%23039%3Bs-Relativity-and-the-Quantum-Revolution-Richard-Wolfson.html
- Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/einsteins-relativity-and-the-quantum-revolution/id1043752451?itsct=books_box_link&itscg=30200&ls=1&at=1001l3bAw&ct=9natree
- eBay: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=Einstein+039+s+Relativity+and+the+Quantum+Revolution+Richard+Wolfson+&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&siteid=0&campid=5339060787&customid=9natree&toolid=10001&mkevt=1
- Read more: https://english.9natree.com/read/B00DTNWGP2/
#specialrelativityandlightspeedinvariance #curvedspacetimegravity #quantumuncertaintyprinciple #waveparticleduality #blackholesandcosmology #Einstein039sRelativityandtheQuantumRevolution
Einstein's Relativity and the Quantum Revolution: Modern Physics for Non-Scientists, 2nd Edition by Richard Wolfson is a Great Courses lecture-based introduction to the central ideas of modern physics. Designed for general learners rather than specialists, it presents twenty-four structured lectures on the transition from classical mechanics to Einstein's relativity and quantum theory. The course does not attempt to train readers or listeners in advanced mathematical problem solving. Its purpose is conceptual: to show why older views of space, time, matter, and causality had to be revised, and how modern physics reshaped scientific understanding of the universe. Wolfson moves historically from Galilean and Newtonian motion through light, special relativity, general relativity, quantum uncertainty, atomic structure, black holes, cosmology, and the search for unifying principles. The work belongs to popular science education, but its lecture format gives it a more systematic progression than many single-volume overviews of relativity or quantum mechanics.