FYS 1252 - Wondering Like Einstein

Credits: 4
The name Einstein has become synonymous with genius. But do you really know what he did? Einstein revolutionized physics and set much of the modern world in motion! This course will trace his major contributions to our understanding of motion, space and time, gravity, light and lasers, thermodynamics, and quantum mechanics. In addition to exploring these topics, we will also study the great debates between Einstein and Bohr about the reality of nature, and what we can and cannot know. While the focus of the course is conceptual, we will use some basic algebra to express his many ideas and solve simply problems. After all, Einstein was not so good at math!
McDaniel Plan: First Year Seminar