I. 緒論及背景
I. Introduction and Background |
第一周：課程結構及緒論
Week 1: Course Organization and Introduction |
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緒論課
Introductory Lecture |
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第二周：19世紀的遺產
Week 2: The Nineteenth-Century Legacy |
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Maxwell，電氣力學和劍橋高材生
Maxwell, Electrodynamics, and Cambridge Wranglers |
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機械和電氣力學的世界圖景，和理論物理學的興起
Mechanical and Electrodynamical World Pictures, and the Rise of Theoretical Physics |
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Ⅱ。愛因斯坦：相對論、量子、以及哲人科學家
II. Einstein: Relativity, Quanta, and the Philosopher-Scientist |
第三周：狹義相對論的起源：物理性、哲學性，試驗性
Week 3: The Origins of Special Relativity: Physical, Philosophical, Experimental |
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狹義相對論和乙太
Special Relativity and the Ether |
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愛因斯坦和試驗
Einstein and Experiment |
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第四周：從狹義到廣義理論
Week 4: From the Special to the General Theory |
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狹義相對論的接受
The Reception of Special Relativity |
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廣義相對論的起源
The Origins of General Relativity |
提交第一篇論文
First Paper Due |
第五周：從量子理論到量子力學
Week 5: From Quantum Theory to Quantum Mechanics |
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輻射、量子和原子1900-1913
Radiation, Quanta, and Atoms, 1900-1913 |
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矩陣和波
Matrices and Waves |
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第六周：量子力學的解釋
Week 6: Interpreting Quantum Mechanics |
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愛因斯坦- Bohr的辯論
The Einstein-Bohr Debate |
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量子理論的背景：德國魏瑪，兩次大戰之間的美國
The Contexts of Quanta: Weimar Germany, Interwar US |
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第七周: 期中狂文
Week 7: Midterm Extravaganza |
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堂上期中考試
In-class Midterm Examination |
Ⅲ。歐本海默：物理學、物理學家和國家
III. Oppenheimer: Physics, Physicists, and the State |
第八周：轉移課題和中心
Week 8: Shifting Topics and Centers |
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20世紀30年代的核子物理；從歐洲到美洲
Nuclear Physics in the 1930s; From Europe to America |
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希特勒時期的物理學；《德國物理》和氫彈
Physics under Hitler: deutsche Physik and the bomb |
提交第二篇論文
Second Paper Due |
第九周：物理學家的戰爭
Week 9: The Physicists' War |
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美國的物理學；雷達和原子彈
Physics in the US: Radar and the Atomic Bomb |
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電影；核試爆後的一天
（譯註：Trinity是美國第一次核試爆的地點）
Film: The Day After Trinity |
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第十周：氫彈及其後
Week 10: The H-Bomb and Beyond |
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麥卡錫主義和歐本海默聽證會
McCarthyism and the Oppenheimer Hearing |
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電影：《製造氫彈的決定》
Film: The Decision to Build the H-Bomb |
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Ⅳ。費曼和戰後美國理論
IV. Feynman and Postwar American Theory |
第十一周：粒子和場
Week 11: Particles and Fields |
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大科學的興起
The Rise of Big Science |
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保守學派革命：量子電動學和重正化
The Conservative Revolution: QED and Renormalization |
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第十二周：微粒理論的謎團和衝突
Week 12: Conundrums and Conflict in Particle Theory |
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對場理論的挑戰
The Challenge to Field Theory |
提交重寫的第二篇論文
Second Paper Re-write Due |
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誇克、規範場和標準模型的興起
Quarks, Gauge Fields, and the Rise of the Standard Model |
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第十三周：實驗室和工廠中的固態物理學
Week 13: Solid-State Physics in the Lab and in the Factory |
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建立固態群體
Building a Solid-State Community |
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第十四周：宇宙學和統一論
Week 14: Cosmology and Unification |
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大爆炸理論v.穩態宇宙論
Big Bang v. Steady-State Cosmology |
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膨脹和超弦理論
Inflation and Superstrings |
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第十五周：總結
Week 15: Summary |
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課程總結
Course Summary |
提交期終論文
Final Paper Due |
