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Description: MIT 8.20 Introduction to Special Relativity, January IAP 2021 Instructor: David Kaiser View the complete course: ocw.mit.edu/8-20IAP21 YouTube Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP61Zc3rR6wVM0kpsiyIq0fk8 Professor David Kaiser teaches in the physics department at MIT and is also a historian of science. In this guest lecture, he describes how the most accomplished physicists of the mid-to-late 19th century were thinking about motion of bodies through space and time, and how, at the end of that century, a rather young and very little known person named Albert Einstein began asking similar questions but often in very different ways. (01:13:40) License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at ocw.mit.edu Support OCW at ow.ly/a1If50zVRlQ We encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at ocw.mit.edu/comments.