Albert Einstein and the frontiers of physics /
Examines the personality as well as the thought process which led this physicist to his discoveries which have helped shape our understanding of the natural world.
Основен автор: | Bernstein, Jeremy, 1929- |
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Формат: | Електронна книга |
Език: | English |
Публикувано: |
New York :
Oxford University Press,
1996.
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Серия: |
Oxford portraits in science.
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Онлайн достъп: |
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Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Albert Einstein and the frontiers of physics. |
Съдържание:
- How I did not get to meet Albert Einstein
- ch. 1.
- einstein when young
- Sidebar : Einstein's proof of the Pythagorean theorem
- ch. 2.
- The miracle year
- Sidebar : a short history of light theory
- ch. 3.
- The strange story of the quantum
- Sidebar : how cavity, or blackbody, radiation became a pivotal point in physics
- Sidebar : light quanta
- ch. 4.
- Professor Einstein's happiest thought
- Sidebar : what makes a geometry Euclidean?
- ch. 5.
- Einstein's cosmology
- Ch. 6.
- The stranger story of the quantum
- Sidebar : how to detect crank physics
- ch. 7.
- 112 Mercer Street
- ch. 8.
- Einstein's legacy
- Coda : how I did get to see Einstein
- appendix.
- The Michelson-Morley experiment.