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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-
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
Серия: Oxford portraits in science.
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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.