Stanford University's Course on Understanding Einstein...

1. Understanding Einstein:
The Special Theory of Relativity
Final Creative Project
Carsten Weerth, Bremen/Germany
Stanford University: Understanding Einstein

2. Final Creative Project
The final creative project in Stanford‘s
course on Understanding Einstein by
Prof. Dr. Larry Randles Lagerstrom
shall show commitment to the topic in
new, creative and different ways…

3. Wordclouds…
Are creative ways to visualize contents nicely
Are important in web publishing
Are important in teaching
Are important for learning and visualizing stuff
This project visualizes basic facts of Einsteins
most productive year 1905 and basic concepts
of his research and findings…
Different free word cloud generators have been
tested and the results are shown here…

4. Word collection for world clouds…
The following word collection has been used:
Albert, Albert, Einstein, Einstein, Einstein, Einstein,
Einstein, Einstein. German, Ulm, Jewish, Genius, Genius,
Genius, 1879, Miracle Year, 1905, 1905, 1905, Patent
office clerk, Atomic-Bomb, Nobel-Laureate, Special Theory
Relativity, Atoms, Molecules, Physicist, Bohr, Peace-
activist, Creative, Imagination, Time-travel, Competitative,
Arrogant, Quotes, Papers, Scientific erosion, Seeking,
zigzag, Electron, Quantum, Photon, e=mc2, Time, Time,
Time, Time, Time, Light, Light, Experiments, Math,
Particles, Waves, Waves

5. Wordcloud I

6. Wordcloud II

7. Wordcloud III

8. Wordcloud IV

9. Wordcloud V

10. Wordcloud VI

11. Further References I
We covered the beginning of Einstein‘s carrer
and the miracle year of 1905. New historical
evidence shows that later in his life he feared
for his life and whished to live a normal life, see
http://www.futurity.org/society-culture/new-
einstein-papers-he-feared-for-his-safety/
(Caltech).

12. Further References II
Search The Open University‘s youtube-channel
Open Learn for the word “Einstein“…
You get short videos on Einstein and Bohr and
highly entertaining cartoon videos on
- The Twin Paradox and Special Relativity…

13. Further References III
Youtube also holds hours of further interesting
material - search for the word “Einstein“…, e.g.
- A Yale lecture “Einstein for the masses“, see
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3enwR6e9
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14. Acknowledgements...
This digital artefact was made for
‘Understanding Einstein: The Special Theory
of Relativity‘ – as final project for Larry
Randles Lagerstrom‘s MOOC Coursera
Course from Stanford University.
The free software for creating word clouds
used were:
www.tagxedo.com, www.abcya.com and
Stanford‘s www.wordsift.com.