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Re: online relativity course



There is such a course offered at the Montana State University using
Edwin Taylor's book Spacetime Physics as part of a continuing education
program for teachers. I don't know if it's offered for undergraduates
though.

AT

On Sep 20, 2004, at 7:00 PM, Fayngold, Moses wrote:

Dear Colleagues,

We are submitting a proposal to NSF for a distance learning course on
"Special Relativity and How It Works".

The course was inspired by the favorable response to one of the PI's
recent book on special relativity. You may view the proposal draft
and information on the book at http://farlan.org/projects.html .
The project also includes a description of a new book on relativity
that might be used as a textbook.

We believe that in many colleges there can be found a few students
interested in relativity who are unable to take course work because
the topic is not offered. These students and departments would benefit
from the opportunity to take such an online, multimedia course such
as this, which would hopefully be distributed through the NSF grant.

We would like to know your opinions on whether such a project would be
of interest to you, your department or college.

We appreciate your responses.


Moses Fayngold, PI, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Ken Ronkowitz, Co-PI, NJIT