EINSTEIN’S MIRACULOUS YEAR

The book also include A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions, Einstein’s doctoral dissertation, which remain among his most cited papers. It shows how to calculate Avogadro’s number and the size of molecules.

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EINSTEIN’S MIRACULOUS YEAR

Overview

After 1905, Einstein’s miraculous year, physics would never be the same again. In those twelve months, Einstein shattered many cherished scientific beliefs in five great papers that would establish him as the world’s leading physicist. For the first time, this book brings those papers together in an accessible format. An introduction by John Stachel explains their development and historical significance.


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 the 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 include A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions, Einstein’s doctoral dissertation, which remain among his most cited papers. It shows how to calculate Avogadro’s number and the size of molecules.

The next paper led to a Nobel Prize, although for another scientist, Jan Perin. On the Motion of small Particles suspended in liquid at rest 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 final papers is 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 for 1921.

These papers presented in a modern English translation, are fascinating 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.

John Stachel is professor of physics and Director of the Center for Einstein studies at Boston University and founding editor of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein.

“In the twentieth century, we have been greatly privileged to witness two major revolutions in our physical picture of the world…. We have come to use the term ‘relativity’ to encompass the first of these revolutions and ‘quantum theory’ to encompass the second … It is particularly remarkable that a single physicist- Albert Einstein – had such extraordinary deep perceptions of the working of nature that he laid foundation stones for both of these twentieth century revolutions in the single year of 1905.”

--- From the foreword by Roger Penrose, Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford

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Author
John Satchel
Publisher
SCIENTIA
Page count
198
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