Ebook: Einstein, 1905–2005: Poincaré Seminar 2005
- Tags: Relativity and Cosmology, Elementary Particles Quantum Field Theory, History of Physics
- Series: Progress in Mathematical Physics 47
- Year: 2006
- Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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The Poincaré Seminar is held twice a year at the Institute Henri Poincaré in Paris. The goal of this seminar is to provide up-to-date information about general topics of great interest in physics. Both the theoretical and experimental results are covered, with some historical background. Particular care is devoted to the pedagogical nature of the presentation.
This volume is devoted to Einstein's 1905 papers and their legacy. After a presentation of Einstein's epistemological approach to physics, and the genesis of special relativity, a centenary perspective is offered. The geometry of relativistic spacetime is explained in detail. Single photon experiments are presented, as a spectacular realization of Einstein's light quanta hypothesis. A previously unpublished lecture by Einstein, which presents an illuminating point of view on statistical physics in 1910, at the dawn of quantum mechanics, is reproduced. The volume ends with an essay on the historical, physical and mathematical aspects of Brownian motion.
Contributing authors:
Jacques Bros
Thibault Damour
Olivier Darrigol
Bertrand Duplantier
Albert Einstein
Philippe Grangier
Ugo Moschella
Clifford M. Will
Additional information (e.g. color versions of pictures) can be found at www.birkhauser.ch/3-7643-7435-7
The Poincar? Seminar is held twice a year at the Institute Henri Poincar? in Paris. The goal of this seminar is to provide up-to-date information about general topics of great interest in physics. Both the theoretical and experimental results are covered, with some historical background. Particular care is devoted to the pedagogical nature of the presentation.
This volume is devoted to Einstein's 1905 papers and their legacy. After a presentation of Einstein's epistemological approach to physics, and the genesis of special relativity, a centenary perspective is offered. The geometry of relativistic spacetime is explained in detail. Single photon experiments are presented, as a spectacular realization of Einstein's light quanta hypothesis. A previously unpublished lecture by Einstein, which presents an illuminating point of view on statistical physics in 1910, at the dawn of quantum mechanics, is reproduced. The volume ends with an essay on the historical, physical and mathematical aspects of Brownian motion.
Contributing authors:
Jacques Bros
Thibault Damour
Olivier Darrigol
Bertrand Duplantier
Albert Einstein
Philippe Grangier
Ugo Moschella
Clifford M. Will
Additional information (e.g. color versions of pictures) can be found at www.birkhauser.ch/3-7643-7435-7
The Poincar? Seminar is held twice a year at the Institute Henri Poincar? in Paris. The goal of this seminar is to provide up-to-date information about general topics of great interest in physics. Both the theoretical and experimental results are covered, with some historical background. Particular care is devoted to the pedagogical nature of the presentation.
This volume is devoted to Einstein's 1905 papers and their legacy. After a presentation of Einstein's epistemological approach to physics, and the genesis of special relativity, a centenary perspective is offered. The geometry of relativistic spacetime is explained in detail. Single photon experiments are presented, as a spectacular realization of Einstein's light quanta hypothesis. A previously unpublished lecture by Einstein, which presents an illuminating point of view on statistical physics in 1910, at the dawn of quantum mechanics, is reproduced. The volume ends with an essay on the historical, physical and mathematical aspects of Brownian motion.
Contributing authors:
Jacques Bros
Thibault Damour
Olivier Darrigol
Bertrand Duplantier
Albert Einstein
Philippe Grangier
Ugo Moschella
Clifford M. Will
Additional information (e.g. color versions of pictures) can be found at www.birkhauser.ch/3-7643-7435-7
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-ix
The Genesis of the Theory of Relativity....Pages 1-31
Special Relativity: A Centenary Perspective....Pages 33-58
From Euclid’s Geometry to Minkowski’s Spacetime....Pages 60-119
The de Sitter and anti-de Sitter Sightseeing Tour....Pages 120-133
Experiments with Single Photons....Pages 135-149
Einstein 1905–1955: His Approach to Physics....Pages 151-182
On Boltzmann’s Principle and Some Immediate Consequences Thereof....Pages 183-199
Brownian Motion, “Diverse and Undulating”....Pages 201-293
The Poincar? Seminar is held twice a year at the Institute Henri Poincar? in Paris. The goal of this seminar is to provide up-to-date information about general topics of great interest in physics. Both the theoretical and experimental results are covered, with some historical background. Particular care is devoted to the pedagogical nature of the presentation.
This volume is devoted to Einstein's 1905 papers and their legacy. After a presentation of Einstein's epistemological approach to physics, and the genesis of special relativity, a centenary perspective is offered. The geometry of relativistic spacetime is explained in detail. Single photon experiments are presented, as a spectacular realization of Einstein's light quanta hypothesis. A previously unpublished lecture by Einstein, which presents an illuminating point of view on statistical physics in 1910, at the dawn of quantum mechanics, is reproduced. The volume ends with an essay on the historical, physical and mathematical aspects of Brownian motion.
Contributing authors:
Jacques Bros
Thibault Damour
Olivier Darrigol
Bertrand Duplantier
Albert Einstein
Philippe Grangier
Ugo Moschella
Clifford M. Will
Additional information (e.g. color versions of pictures) can be found at www.birkhauser.ch/3-7643-7435-7
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-ix
The Genesis of the Theory of Relativity....Pages 1-31
Special Relativity: A Centenary Perspective....Pages 33-58
From Euclid’s Geometry to Minkowski’s Spacetime....Pages 60-119
The de Sitter and anti-de Sitter Sightseeing Tour....Pages 120-133
Experiments with Single Photons....Pages 135-149
Einstein 1905–1955: His Approach to Physics....Pages 151-182
On Boltzmann’s Principle and Some Immediate Consequences Thereof....Pages 183-199
Brownian Motion, “Diverse and Undulating”....Pages 201-293
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