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Consider Bob on Earth. At time t = 0, Alice flies by in her spaceship at constant velocity, heading to the right. Which diagram represents Bob’s world line in Alice’s frame of reference?

2. Question 2 Consider Bob on Earth. At time t = 0, Alice flies by in her spaceship at constant velocity, heading to the right. Which diagram represents Bob’s world…

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According to Einstein, what aspect of science is “just as subjectively, psychologically conditioned as are all other human endeavors”?

8. Question 8 According to Einstein, what aspect of science is “just as subjectively, psychologically conditioned as are all other human endeavors”? 1 point   Science as something coming into…

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What was one of Einstein’s complaints about the physics teaching of Professor Heinrich Weber at the Swiss Polytechnic?

7. Question 7 What was one of Einstein’s complaints about the physics teaching of Professor Heinrich Weber at the Swiss Polytechnic? 1 point   Weber’s accent was hard to understand….

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What was mentioned in one of the lecture videos as a surprising source for gaining insight into how the British and French had different styles of doing physics in the late 1800s?

5. Question 5 What was mentioned in one of the lecture videos as a surprising source for gaining insight into how the British and French had different styles of doing…

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Which of the 1905 papers gave the first good theoretical proof for the existence of atoms (and was soon confirmed by experiment)?

6. Question 6 Which of the 1905 papers gave the first good theoretical proof for the existence of atoms (and was soon confirmed by experiment)? 1 point   The March…

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The primary purpose of Einstein’s education at the Swiss Polytechnic was to prepare him for what kind of career?

7. Question 7 The primary purpose of Einstein’s education at the Swiss Polytechnic was to prepare him for what kind of career? 1 point   Teaching physics in a secondary…