SAS Honors Seminar "Einstein"
Fall 2012

SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL

PRIMARY SOURCES

• Albert Einstein Publications:
  • "Relativity: The Special and General Theory"
  • "The Meaning of Relativity (very mathematical)"
• Newtonian Cosmology:
  • "Was Newtonian cosmology really inconsistent?" Vickers 2009, Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 40, 197
  • "On the significance of Newtonian cosmology" McCrea 1955, AJ, 60, 271
  • "Dark Energy: back to Newton?" Calder & Lahav, A&G, 49, 1.13
• Ernst Mach Publications:
  • "The Science of Mechanics"
  • Supplement to 3rd English Edition of "The Science of Mechanics"
• Galileo's Publications:
  • Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences
    • Table of Contents
    • Full text HTML
    • Full text pdf
  • Dialogues Concerning Two Chief World Systems
    • Full text HTML
    • Galilean Relativity (click on p. 173 in left panel) "And here for a final proof of the nullity of all the experiments..."
    • Text on Galilean Relativity (if above link broken)
• Newton's Principia
  • Table of Contents
• Henri Poincare
  • "Science and Hypothesis"
• BROKEN Einstein's FBI file

SECONDARY SOURCES

• Physics Today article on testing relativity from the 1919 eclipse
• Einstein on racism
  • Albert Einstein and Black Americans
  • Einstein at Lincoln University
  • The Hidden Half-Life of Albert Einstein: Anti-Racism
• Essays on the nature of time
  • From Newton's Principia (scroll down to SCHOLIUM).
  • A history of time: Classical time
  • A history of time: 20th century time
• Hubble's Guide to the Expanding Universe
• NOVA Program on "Einstein's Big Idea
• Podcasts (beware large files!)
  • Podcast on Einstein and Religion ("Einstein's God")
  • Podcast on Einstein and Religion ("Einstein's Ethics")

EDUCATIONAL WEBSITES

• Astronomical Misconceptions Quiz
• Electromagnetic Induction

ASTRONOMICAL WEBSITES

• Hubble Space Telescope Public Pictures
• Chandra X-ray Observatory Photo Album
• Astronomy Picture of the Day. Each day a different image or photograph, along with a brief explanation.
• Astronomical animations
• History of Mathematics. Read the biographies of the following Scientists
  • Aristotle (384BC-322BC)
  • Euclid of Alexandria (c.325BC-c.265BC)
  • Aristarchus of Samos (c.310BC-c.320BC)
  • Eratosthenes of Cyrene (276BC-194BC)
  • Claudius Ptolemy (c.85-c.165)
  • Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)
  • Tycho Brahe (1546-1601)
  • Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
  • Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
  • Isaac Newton (1643-1727)
  • John Flamsteed (1646-1719)
  • Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827)
  • James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)
  • Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1832-1928)
  • Hermann Minkowski (1864-1909)
  • Willem de Sitter (1872-1934)
  • Karl Schwarzschild (1873-1916)
  • Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
  • Arthur Eddington (1882-1944)
  • Aleksandr Friedmann (1888-1925)
  • Edwin Hubble (1889-1953)
  • Stephen Hawking (1942- )
• Current and Upcoming Major Space Missions for X-ray Astronomy
  • Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (launched 30 Dec 1995)
  • Chandra X-ray Observatory (launched 23 Jul 1999)
  • X-ray Multimirror Mission (launched 10 Dec 1999)
  • Suzaku (launched 10 July 2005)
  • A compendium of NASA space science missions.

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Revised July 2, 2012