Kurzus nemzetközi vendég- és részidős hallgatóknak
- Kar
- Bölcsészettudományi Kar
- Szervezet
- BTK Filozófia Intézet
- Kód
- BMI-LOTD-611E.02
- Cím
- Relativity for everyone
- Tervezett félév
- Őszi
- Meghirdetve
- 2024/25/1
- ECTS
- 4
- Nyelv
- en
- Tantárgy tartalma
- For the latest version of the syllabus, please visit the Philosophy course catalogue: http://lps.elte.hu/courselist/ The aim of this BA course is to provide an introduction to the main concepts of spacetime theories. The course is self-contained, it presupposes no knowledge of mathematics or physics but it requires hard work during the semester. Content of the course: 1. What is spacetime? 2. Principles of Special Relativity 3. Relativity of simulaneity 4. Adding velocities 5. Paradoxes 6. Aristotelian spacetime 7. Newtonian and Galilean spacetime 8. Non-Euclidean geometry 9. General Relavitity 10. Life near the black holes 11. Neo-Lorentzian approaches to space and time 12. Empirical Foundations of space and time Suggested reading: • R. Geroch: General Relativity from A to B, University of Chicago Press, 1978. • T. Maudlin: Philosophy of Physics: Space and Time, Princeton University Press, 2012. • J. D. Norton: Einstein for Everyone, Nullarbor Press, 2007.