Einstein's relativity and the quantum revolution

Topics include Einstein's theory of gravity; curved spacetime; black holes; twentieth-century models of atomic matter; the photoelectric effect; the quantum; light as both wave and particle; the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and the Copenhagen interpretation; Schrodinger's cat example; quantum superposition and the collapse of the wave function; neutrons, protons, quarks and their behavior; the Big Bang and the expansion of the universe; string theory.