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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bernstein, Jeremy, 1929-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
Colección:Oxford portraits in science.
Temas:
Einstein, Albert, > 1879-1955 > Juvenile literature.
Einstein, Albert, > 1879-1955.
Physicists > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Physicists.
JUVENILE NONFICTION > Science & Nature > Physics.
JUVENILE NONFICTION > Biography & Autobiography > Science & Technology.
Natuurkunde.
Biography
Biographies.
Juvenile works.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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