Teaching General Relativity to the Layperson

• Autores: Mark Egdall
• Localización: The Physics Teacher, ISSN 0031-921X, Vol. 47, Nº. 8, 2009, págs. 522-527
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper describes a lay course on general relativity (GR) given at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Florida International University. It is presented in six hour-and-a-half weekly sessions. Other courses offered by the author include special relativity (which precedes the course described here), quantum theory, and cosmology. Students are people 50 and older, mostly retired or semi-retired like me. They come from all walks of life, including medical doctors, ballet directors, educators, cruise line executives, and poets. Most are college educated, but with little or no formal physics education. A few have technical backgrounds, e.g., chemistry or physics.