Einstein From B To Z
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Einstein From B To Z
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Author : John Stachel
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2001-12-10
Einstein From B To Z written by John Stachel and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-12-10 with Science categories.
John Stachel, the author of this collection of 37 published and unpublished articles on Albert Einstein, has written about Einstein and his work for over 40 years. Trained as a theoretical physicist specializing in the theory of relativity, he was chosen as the founding editor of The Collected papers of Albert Einstein 25 years ago, and is currently Director of the Boston University Center for Einstein Studies. Based on a detailed study of documentary evidence, much of which was newly discovered in the course of his work, Stachel debunks many of the old (and some new) myths about Einstein and offers novel insight into his life and work. Throughout the volume, a new, more human picture of Einstein is offered to replace the plaster saint of popular legend. In particular, a youthful Einstein emerges from the obscurity that previously shrouded his early years, and much new light is shed on the origins of the special and general theories of relativity. Also discussed in some detail are Einstein's troubled relationship with his first wife, his friendships with other physicists such as Eddington, Bose, and Pauli, and his Jewish identity. The essays are grouped thematically into the following areas: * The Human Side * Editing the Einstein Papers * Surveys of Einstein's Work * Special Relativity * General Relativity * Quantum Theory * Einstein and Other Scientists * Book Reviews Because the essays are independent of one another, readers will be able to dip into this collection to satisfy varying interests. It will be of particular interest to historians of 20th century science, working physicists, and students, as well as to the many members of the general reading public who continue to be fascinated by aspects of Einstein's life and work.
A Student S Guide To Einstein S Major Papers
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Author : Robert E Kennedy
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2012-01-19
A Student S Guide To Einstein S Major Papers written by Robert E Kennedy and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-19 with Science categories.
Our understanding of the physical universe underwent a revolution in the early twentieth century - evolving from the classical physics of Newton, Galileo, and Maxwell to the modern physics of relativity and quantum mechanics. The dominant figure in this revolutionary change was Albert Einstein. In a single year, 1905, Einstein produced breakthrough works in three areas of physics: on the size and the effects of atoms; on the quantization of the electromagnetic field; and on the special theory of relativity. In 1916 he produced a fourth breakthrough work, the general theory of relativity. A Student's Guide to Einstein's Major Papers focuses on Einstein's contributions, setting his major works into their historical context, and then takes the reader through the details of each paper, including the mathematics. This book helps the reader appreciate the simplicity and insightfulness of Einstein's ideas and how revolutionary his work was, and locate it in the evolution of scientific thought begun by the ancient Greek natural philosophers.
Revisiting The Foundations Of Relativistic Physics
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Author : Ashtekar
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2011-06-28
Revisiting The Foundations Of Relativistic Physics written by Ashtekar and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-28 with Science categories.
This book is for physicists, historians and philosophers of physics as well as students seeking an introduction to ongoing debates in relativistic and quantum physics. This title is unique in that: it comprises contributions by leading physicists, philosophers and historians of science; it covers the recent debates on the emergence of relativity and quantum theory; it includes chapters with an introductory character, comprehensible to students and science teachers; it can be used in graduate level courses in the history and philosophy of science; it strengthens the bonds between the communities of scientists, historians, and philosophers.
Einstein
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Author : Thomas Ryckman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-05-18
Einstein written by Thomas Ryckman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-18 with Philosophy categories.
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) was the most influential physicist of the 20th century. Less well known is that fundamental philosophical problems, such as concept formation, the role of epistemology in developing and explaining the character of physical theories, and the debate between positivism and realism, played a central role in his thought as a whole. Thomas Ryckman shows that already at the beginning of his career - at a time when the twin pillars of classical physics, Newtonian mechanics and Maxwell’s electromagnetism were known to have but limited validity - Einstein sought to advance physical theory by positing certain physical principles as secure footholds. That philosophy produced his greatest triumph, the general theory of relativity, and his greatest failure, an unwillingness to accept quantum mechanics. This book shows that Einstein’s philosophy grew from a lifelong aspiration for a unified theoretical representation encompassing all physical phenomena. It also considers how Einstein’s theories of relativity and criticisms of quantum theory shaped the course of 20th-century philosophy of science. Including a chronology, glossary, chapter summaries, and suggestions for further reading, Einstein is an ideal introduction to this iconic figure in 20th-century science and philosophy. It is essential reading for students of philosophy of science, and is also suitable for those working in related areas such as physics, history of science, or intellectual history.
Einstein S Field Equations And Their Physical Implications
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Author : Bernd G. Schmidt
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2000-02-18
Einstein S Field Equations And Their Physical Implications written by Bernd G. Schmidt and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-02-18 with Mathematics categories.
This book serves two purposes. The authors present important aspects of modern research on the mathematical structure of Einstein's field equations and they show how to extract their physical content from them by mathematically exact methods. The essays are devoted to exact solutions and to the Cauchy problem of the field equations as well as to post-Newtonian approximations that have direct physical implications. Further topics concern quantum gravity and optics in gravitational fields. The book addresses researchers in relativity and differential geometry but can also be used as additional reading material for graduate students.
Analytic Hyperbolic Geometry And Albert Einstein S Special Theory Of Relativity Second Edition
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Author : Abraham Albert Ungar
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2022-02-22
Analytic Hyperbolic Geometry And Albert Einstein S Special Theory Of Relativity Second Edition written by Abraham Albert Ungar and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-22 with Mathematics categories.
This book presents a powerful way to study Einstein's special theory of relativity and its underlying hyperbolic geometry in which analogies with classical results form the right tool. The premise of analogy as a study strategy is to make the unfamiliar familiar. Accordingly, this book introduces the notion of vectors into analytic hyperbolic geometry, where they are called gyrovectors. Gyrovectors turn out to be equivalence classes that add according to the gyroparallelogram law just as vectors are equivalence classes that add according to the parallelogram law. In the gyrolanguage of this book, accordingly, one prefixes a gyro to a classical term to mean the analogous term in hyperbolic geometry. As an example, the relativistic gyrotrigonometry of Einstein's special relativity is developed and employed to the study of the stellar aberration phenomenon in astronomy.Furthermore, the book presents, for the first time, the relativistic center of mass of an isolated system of noninteracting particles that coincided at some initial time t = 0. It turns out that the invariant mass of the relativistic center of mass of an expanding system (like galaxies) exceeds the sum of the masses of its constituent particles. This excess of mass suggests a viable mechanism for the formation of dark matter in the universe, which has not been detected but is needed to gravitationally 'glue' each galaxy in the universe. The discovery of the relativistic center of mass in this book thus demonstrates once again the usefulness of the study of Einstein's special theory of relativity in terms of its underlying hyperbolic geometry.
Boston Studies In The Philosophy Of Science
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Boston Studies In The Philosophy Of Science written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Relativity (Physics) categories.
Beyond The Einstein Addition Law And Its Gyroscopic Thomas Precession
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Author : Abraham A. Ungar
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Beyond The Einstein Addition Law And Its Gyroscopic Thomas Precession written by Abraham A. Ungar and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Science categories.
"I cannot define coincidence [in mathematics]. But 1 shall argue that coincidence can always be elevated or organized into a superstructure which perfonns a unification along the coincidental elements. The existence of a coincidence is strong evidence for the existence of a covering theory. " -Philip 1. Davis [Dav81] Alluding to the Thomas gyration, this book presents the Theory of gy rogroups and gyrovector spaces, taking the reader to the immensity of hyper bolic geometry that lies beyond the Einstein special theory of relativity. Soon after its introduction by Einstein in 1905 [Ein05], special relativity theory (as named by Einstein ten years later) became overshadowed by the ap pearance of general relativity. Subsequently, the exposition of special relativity followed the lines laid down by Minkowski, in which the role of hyperbolic ge ometry is not emphasized. This can doubtlessly be explained by the strangeness and unfamiliarity of hyperbolic geometry [Bar98]. The aim of this book is to reverse the trend of neglecting the role of hy perbolic geometry in the special theory of relativity, initiated by Minkowski, by emphasizing the central role that hyperbolic geometry plays in the theory.
Einstein S Relativity And Beyond
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Author : Jong-Ping Hsu
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2000
Einstein S Relativity And Beyond written by Jong-Ping Hsu and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Science categories.
The purposes of this book are (1) to explore and expound relativity physics and four-dimensional symmetry from the logically simplest viewpoint by making one single postulate instead of two; and (2) to indicate the simplest generalization of the Lorentz transformation in order to cope with frames with constant linear accelerations. The fundamentally new ideas of the first purpose are developed on the basis of the term paper of a Harvard physics undergraduate. They lead to an unexpected affirmative answer to the long-standing question of whether it is possible to construct a relativity theory without postulating the constancy of the speed of light and retaining only the first postulate of special relativity. This question was discussed in the early years following the discovery of special relativity by many physicists, including Ritz, Tolman, Kunz, Comstock and Pauli, all of whom obtained negative answers. Furthermore, the new theory of relativity indicates the truly universal and fundamental constants in physics, and provides a broad view of relativistic physics beyond special relativity. It substantiates the view and sheds light on the understanding that the four-dimensional symmetry framework can accommodate many different concepts of physical time, including common time and Reichenbach's general concept of time. This logically simplest viewpoint of relativity allows a natural extension of the physics of particles and fields from inertial frames to noninertial frames in which the speed of light is not constant. New predictions in physics resulting from this new viewpoint are discussed. The book is based on papers by the author and his collaborators in Physics Letters A, Nuovo Cimento B, and Physical Review A and D.
Einstein S Annalen Papers
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Author : Jürgen Renn
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2005-05-06
Einstein S Annalen Papers written by Jürgen Renn and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-05-06 with Science categories.
"Ein spannender Einblick in ein Stück Wissenschaftsgeschichte" (Börsenblatt 3-2005) 1905, in seinem 'Annus Mirabilis' , machte Albert Einstein drei Entdeckungen über die Grundlagen der Natur, die die Basis für seinen Ruhm als Physiker bildeten. Diese drei revolutionären Artikel - über die Lichtquantenhypothese, die Brownsche Molekularbewegung sowie die Spezielle Relativität - wurden in der Zeitschrift 'Annalen der Physik' veröffentlicht. Alle drei gelten heute als Säulen der modernen Wissenschaft und ihrer Anwendungen in der Technologie und sind aus der modernen Welt nicht mehr wegzudenken. Der vorliegende Band präsentiert sämtliche von Albert Einstein in der Zeitschrift Annalen der Physik veröffentlichten Beiträge, darunter einige der wichtigsten Artikel, die er jemals schrieb. Enthalten sind ebenso die drei revolutionären Artikel des Jahres 1905 als Faksimileabdruck. Darüber hinaus enthält der Band Beiträge, welche die Folgen der bahnbrechenden Ideen dieser Artikel - von E=mc2 bis zur Quantentheorie der spezifischen Wärme - aufzeigen. Die Wissenschaftshistoriker Jürgen Renn (MPI für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin), David C. Cassidy (Hofstra Universität, Hempstead, USA), Michel Janssen (Universität von Minnesota, USA) und Robert Rynasiewicz (John Hopkins Universität, USA) haben die vorliegende Sammlung durch aktuelle Artikel ergänzt und kommentiert.