Skills you'll gain

There are 8 modules in this course

About the instructor: Dr. Larry Lagerstrom is the Director of Academic Programs at Stanford University’s Center for Professional Development, which offers graduate certificates in subjects such as artificial intelligence, cyber security, data mining, nanotechnology, innovation, and management science. He holds degrees in physics, mathematics, and the history of science, has published a book and a TED Ed video on "Young Einstein: From the Doxerl Affair to the Miracle Year," and has had over 30,000 students worldwide enroll in his online course on the special theory of relativity (this course!).

Events, Clocks, and Reference Frames

Ethereal Problems and Solutions

The Weirdness Begins

Spacetime Switches

Breaking the Spacetime Speed Limit

Paradoxes to Ponder

To the Center of the Galaxy and Back

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