Experiments in the Mind: Thought Experiments in Physics

3 credits · Undergraduate

Einstein's elevator, Schrodinger's cat, Maxwell's demon; the history of physics is full of these instructive fictions that are thought experiments. This course examines the historical contexts of many thought experiments in order to understand the different roles they have played in the conceptual development of physics from Antiquity to the present. FORMATS: Lecture | Seminar | Discussion