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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Understanding Modern Physics I: Relativity and Cosmology by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

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About the Course

Course Overview: https://youtu.be/xyF-MmGNxd0 The 20th century was known as the century of physics. In the past 120 years, concepts such as space, time, energy, entropy and particles were understood to much deeper levels. New paradigms of thinking such as relativity and quantum mechanics emerged. This course is the first course in the Understanding Modern Physics series, which covers an introduction to special relativity, general relativity and cosmology. We will find: (i) How space and time are relative to observers, and unified into a more fundamental construction of spacetime; (ii) Why the spacetime is not absolute, but rather curves in response to matter, and how gravity emerge as a result of such spacetime curvature; and (iii) What is the framework to understand the evolution of the whole universe, and how that is related to problems such as the origin of space and matter, and the fate of our universe. Note: the videos with a (*) are optional. They provide complementary information but not in the learning objective or assignment questions. Feel free to choose to watch them or not....

Top reviews

JB

Jun 13, 2022

This was a most interesting course. It clarified many points for me which I had picked up from previous readings..

The quality of the lectures was excellent.

SH

Jan 13, 2022

Yi Wang does an excellent job of capturing the most important elements of the subject and demonstrating how they can be best understood. Well done!

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By dikshant p

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Apr 17, 2022

It was a great experience,it was my first online course its help me in understandin physics principle in more details and help in my degree course

By Brian M

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Feb 3, 2022

I find this course to be very confusing. It is too rushed and confusing. I've already completed similar course with Stanford University and intended to use this to consolidate my learning. Sadly, however, it has produced the opposite effect and I am now confused, where before I was clear. I'm thinking of unsubscribing.

By Nguyen D L

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Dec 18, 2021

I learned a lot from this basic introduction to Relativity and Cosmology. Prof. Wang gives very inspiring lectures with the right emphasis on key principles that help explain many non-intuitive aspects of these to concepts in modern physics. I am so inspired to continue with Prof. Wang's other courses on Coursera.

Thanks

Nguyen Le

By Stephen S H

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Jan 14, 2022

Yi Wang does an excellent job of capturing the most important elements of the subject and demonstrating how they can be best understood. Well done!

By Omeni B

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Feb 19, 2023

Very interactive. The quizzes and assignments make you reflect and think deepera bout the material.

By Rubén M R

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Jul 27, 2022

Good , but there are "high jumps" from start equations to final equations.

Some explanations are -to me- confuses, week 4 and 5

By Patrick I A

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Sep 15, 2022

Some words are incomprehensible and is different from the captions. Also, please add more examples.

By Khusan A

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Jan 19, 2023

Hello everyone, my name is Khusan Alibekov. I liked this course. In my view, this course is very well-constructed and designed course. I would like to study about more this thing and I want to new course about these things

By James F B

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Jun 14, 2022

This was a most interesting course. It clarified many points for me which I had picked up from previous readings..

The quality of the lectures was excellent.

By John V W

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May 20, 2022

Instructor did an excellent job of introducing new topics by asking rhetorical questions that highlight what is to be covered next.

By yogesh r

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Jul 3, 2022

It was undoubtedly a great experience that have enhansed me a lot and provided we with great knowledge

By Yury V

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Feb 18, 2022

Very interesting and helpful to understand top of the physics!

By Yue H L

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Sep 24, 2021

A very interesting course.

By ELMER M P

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Sep 11, 2022

thank you

By Bhaktaraj T

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Jan 16, 2022

excellent

By Ka L N

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Oct 19, 2021

Intriguing

By Shokyui H

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Aug 30, 2022

great

By vijay l

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Jul 11, 2022

4.5

By Siddhant J

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Sep 22, 2022

It's an excellent introduction to the topics mentioned. The Special Relativity part is explained pretty well.

By Inam B

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Mar 5, 2023

Great Experience...

By Osama E

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Mar 16, 2023

good work