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Einstein's Physics - Atoms, Quanta, and Relativity - Derived, Explained, and Appraised (Hardcover, New)
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Einstein's Physics - Atoms, Quanta, and Relativity - Derived, Explained, and Appraised (Hardcover, New)
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Many regard Albert Einstein as the greatest physicist since Newton.
What exactly did he do that is so important in physics? We provide
an introduction to his physics at a level accessible to an
undergraduate physics student. All equations are worked out in
detail from the beginning. Einstein's doctoral thesis and his
Brownian motion paper were decisive contributions to our
understanding of matter as composed of molecules and atoms.
Einstein was one of the founding fathers of quantum theory: his
photon proposal through the investigation of blackbody radiation,
his quantum theory of photoelectric effect and specific heat, his
calculation of radiation fluctuation giving the first statement of
wave-particle duality, his introduction of probability in the
description of quantum radiative transitions, and finally the
quantum statistics and Bose-Einstein condensation. Einstein's
special theory of relativity gave us the famous E=mc(2) relation
and the new kinematics leading to the idea of the 4-dimensional
spacetime as the arena in which physical events take place.
Einstein's geometric theory of gravity, general relativity, extends
Newton's theory to time-dependent and strong gravitational fields.
It laid the ground work for the study of black holes and cosmology.
This is a physics book with material presented in the historical
context. We do not stop at Einstein's discovery, but carry the
discussion onto some of the later advances: Bell's theorem, quantum
field theory, gauge theories and Kaluza-Klein unification in a
spacetime with an extra spatial dimension. Accessibility of the
material to a modern-day reader is the goal of our presentation.
Although the book is written with primarily a physics readership in
mind (it can also function as a textbook), enough pedagogical
support material is provided that anyone with a solid background in
introductory physics can, with some effort, understand a good part
of this presentation.
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