Einstein's Miraculous Year (eBook)

Five Papers That Changed the Face of Physics

Albert Einstein (Autor)

John Stachel (Herausgeber)

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2021
272 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-1821-1 (ISBN)

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Five extraordinary papers by Albert Einstein that transformed physics, edited and introduced by John Stachel and with a foreword by Nobel laureate Roger Penrose After 1905, Einstein's miraculous year, physics would never be the same again. In those twelve months, Einstein shattered many cherished scientific beliefs with five extraordinary papers that would establish him as the world's leading physicist. This book brings those papers together in an accessible format. The best-known papers are the two that founded special relativity: On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies and Does the Inertia of a Body Depend on Its Energy Content? In the former, Einstein showed that absolute time had to be replaced by a new absolute: the speed of light. In the second, he asserted the equivalence of mass and energy, which would lead to the famous formula E = mc2.The book also includes On a Heuristic Point of View Concerning the Production and Transformation of Light, in which Einstein challenged the wave theory of light, suggesting that light could also be regarded as a collection of particles. This helped to open the door to a whole new world-that of quantum physics. For ideas in this paper, he won the Nobel Prize in 1921.The fourth paper also led to a Nobel Prize, although for another scientist, Jean Perrin. On the Movement of Small Particles Suspended in Stationary Liquids Required by the Molecular-Kinetic Theory of Heat concerns the Brownian motion of such particles. With profound insight, Einstein blended ideas from kinetic theory and classical hydrodynamics to derive an equation for the mean free path of such particles as a function of the time, which Perrin confirmed experimentally. The fifth paper, A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions, was Einstein's doctoral dissertation, and remains among his most cited articles. It shows how to calculate Avogadro's number and the size of molecules.These papers, presented in a modern English translation, are essential reading for any physicist, mathematician, or astrophysicist. Far more than just a collection of scientific articles, this book presents work that is among the high points of human achievement and marks a watershed in the history of science.Coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the miraculous year, this new paperback edition includes an introduction by John Stachel, which focuses on the personal aspects of Einstein's youth that facilitated and led up to the miraculous year.

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.5.2021
• Vorwort: Roger Penrose
• Zusatzinfo: 5 halftones
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Angewandte Physik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Relativitätstheorie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Thermodynamik
• Schlagworte: 2020 Nobel laureates • 2020 Nobel laureates in physics • 2020 Nobel Prize in physics • Abraham Pais • Absolute • Addition theorem • Affine connection • Akademie Olympia • Albert Einstein • Andrea Ghez • Annalen • Annalen der Physik • Annus mirabilis • Annus Mirabilis papers • arbitrarily small • Arnold Sommerfeld • Atomic clock • atomic theory • attracted • Autobiographical Notes • Biography • Black-body radiation • Black Holes • Brownian motion • Calculation • Cartesian coordinate system • classical electromagnetism • classical mechanics • Classical physics • conceivable • Consequences • coordinate system • Coordinate Systems • Coulomb's Law • Determination • Distribution Law • Dopplefs Principle • Dynamic equilibrium • Einstein • electricity • electric light • electrodynamics • Electromagnetic field • Electromagnetic Induction • Electromagnetic radiation • electromagnetism • encourage scholars • Energy Content • Entropy • Equilibrium • Equipartition theorem • Equivalence Principle • Erik Erikson • erudition • Erwin Schrödinger • Exchange interaction • Explanation • General relativity • general theory of relativity • Gravity • greatness • Gymnasium • Handbuch der Physik • Heisenberg • Helen Dukas • Hermann Weyl • Heuristic Point • hypothesis • I. Bernard Cohen • ideal gas • Illustration • Inception • John Stachel • kinetic theory of gases • Kyoto University • laws of thermodynamics • Lecture • Lengths and Times • length scale • Lorentz Group • Lorentz transformation • Lorentz transformations" • Ludwig Boltzmann • Magnetic field • magnetic forces • Marcel Grossmann • Mass diffusivity • mathematical reasoning • mathematician • Mathematics • Matura • Maurice Solovine • Max Born • Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution • Maxwell-Hertz Equations • Maxwell's equations • Maxwells theory • Method of Fluxions • Michael Faraday • Michele Besso • microscope • Mileva Maric • "Molecular Dimensions • Molecule • monochromatic light • Motions • Moving Clocks • Neizbezhnost strannogo mira • Newtonian-Galileian laws • Niels Bohr • nonlinear system • Oktoberfest • Phenomena • photoelectric effect • photoluminescence • Photon • physicist • Planck constant • polygonal line • Probability • Quantity • Quantum Hypothesis • quantum mechanics • Radiation Theory • Reinhard Genzel • Relativity • relativity principle • Reminiscences • Rest System • Richard Feynman • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences • Rudolf Clausius • second law of thermodynamics • simultaneous events • Solution • Space-time • Special relativity • Speed of Light • Statistical Mechanics • Stockholm • Stokes' law • Summa cum laude • Technology • tensor calculus • theoretical physics • theory • theory of heat • Theory of relativity • thermal equilibrium • thermodynamics • Time • University of Zurich • Virtual displacement • viscosity • Wave–particle duality • Wiens law • Wilhelm Ostwald • Wilhelm Wien • Writing • year
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-1821-4 / 1400818214
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-1821-1 / 9781400818211