Secrets of the old one : Einstein, 1905
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Secrets of the old one : Einstein, 1905
Copernicus Books, c2006
Available at 2 libraries
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Includes index
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Description
Makes these ideas accessible to a general reader complex concepts of relativity and the stimulated emission of light through the use of mathematics no more difficult than one learns in high school.
Written by a noted and successful science writer.
Noted science writer Jeremy Bernstein tells the remarkable story of Einstein's papers and their impact one century ago.
Explains the many technological ramifications of ideas which changed our lives in the twentieth century and continue to do so.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Einstein's Miracle Year.- The Prehistory.- Einstein's Theory of Relativity.- Do Atoms Exist?.- The Quantum.- Epilogue: Afterword.
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