Secrets of the Old One Einstein, 1905 /

• Main Author: Bernstein, Jeremy (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2006.
• Subjects: Physics.; Gravitation.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Popular works.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Physics, general.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.; Popular Science, general.

In March 1905, at approximately eight week intervals, the Editor of the noted German physics journal, Annalen der Physik, received three hand-written manuscripts from a relatively unknown patent examiner in Bern, Switzerland. This patent examiner was the twenty-six year old Albert Einstein and the t...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Einstein’s Miracle Year
• The Prehistory
• Einstein’s Theory of Relativity
• Do Atoms Exist?
• The Quantum
• Epilogue: Afterword.