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Physics before and after Einstein /

It is now a century ago that one of the icons of modern physics published some of the most influential scientific papers of all times. With his work on relativity and quantum theory, Albert Einstein has altered the field of physics forever. It should not come as a surprise that looking back at Einst...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Mamone Capria, Marco
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : IOS Press, 2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Title page; Preface; Contents; Albert Einstein: A Portrait; Mechanics and Electromagnetism in the Late Nineteenth Century: The Dynamics of Maxwell's Ether; Mechanistic Science, Thermodynamics, and Industry at the End of the Nineteenth Centur y; The Origins and Concepts of Special Relativity; General Relativity: Gravitation as Geometry and the Machian Programme; The Rebirth of Cosmology: From the Static to the Expanding Universe; Testing Relativity; Einstein and Quantum Theory; The Quantum Debate: From Einstein to Bell and Beyond.