Einstein's pathway to the special theory of relativity:
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Newcastle upon Tyne
Cambridge Scholars Publ.
2015
|
| Edition: | 1. publ. |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Inhaltsverzeichnis Klappentext |
| Physical Description: | X, 384 S. |
Staff View
MARC
| LEADER | 00000nam a2200000 c 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | BV042622332 | ||
| 003 | DE-604 | ||
| 005 | 20160510 | ||
| 007 | t| | ||
| 008 | 150617s2015 xx |||| 00||| eng d | ||
| 020 | |z 1443874345 |c hardback |9 1-4438-7434-5 | ||
| 020 | |z 9781443874342 |c hardback |9 978-1-4438-7434-2 | ||
| 035 | |a (OCoLC)913580486 | ||
| 035 | |a (DE-599)BVBBV042622332 | ||
| 040 | |a DE-604 |b ger |e rakwb | ||
| 041 | 0 | |a eng | |
| 049 | |a DE-12 |a DE-703 | ||
| 084 | |a UB 2420 |0 (DE-625)145310: |2 rvk | ||
| 100 | 1 | |a Weinstein, Galina |e Verfasser |0 (DE-588)1073649113 |4 aut | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Einstein's pathway to the special theory of relativity |c Galina Weinstein |
| 250 | |a 1. publ. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a Newcastle upon Tyne |b Cambridge Scholars Publ. |c 2015 | |
| 300 | |a X, 384 S. | ||
| 336 | |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |b n |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |b nc |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 600 | 1 | 7 | |a Einstein, Albert |d 1879-1955 |0 (DE-588)118529579 |2 gnd |9 rswk-swf |
| 648 | 7 | |a Geschichte 1902-1905 |2 gnd |9 rswk-swf | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Special relativity (Physics) / History | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Geschichte | |
| 650 | 0 | 7 | |a Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie |0 (DE-588)4112491-1 |2 gnd |9 rswk-swf |
| 689 | 0 | 0 | |a Einstein, Albert |d 1879-1955 |0 (DE-588)118529579 |D p |
| 689 | 0 | 1 | |a Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie |0 (DE-588)4112491-1 |D s |
| 689 | 0 | 2 | |a Geschichte 1902-1905 |A z |
| 689 | 0 | |C b |5 DE-604 | |
| 856 | 4 | 2 | |m Digitalisierung UB Bayreuth - ADAM Catalogue Enrichment |q application/pdf |u http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=028055023&sequence=000003&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA |3 Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| 856 | 4 | 2 | |m Digitalisierung UB Bayreuth - ADAM Catalogue Enrichment |q application/pdf |u http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=028055023&sequence=000004&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA |3 Klappentext |
| 940 | 1 | |n DHB | |
| 940 | 1 | |q DHB_BSB_DDC1 | |
| 940 | 1 | |q DHB_JDG_ISBN_1 | |
| 942 | 1 | 1 | |c 509 |e 22/bsb |f 09041 |g 43 |
| 943 | 1 | |a oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-028055023 | |
Record in the Search Index
| _version_ | 1824687179916378112 |
|---|---|
| adam_text |
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments.ix
Introduction.1
A. From Einstein's Childhood to Patent Office.18
1 Einstein's Parents and Sister Maja
2 The Move to Munich and the Electric Firm
3 Rebellious and Creative
4 Einstein Cannot Take Authority and Demands for Obedience
5 Einstein Teaches Himself Natural Science and Philosophy
6 Secondary School in Aarau
7 Polytechnic in Zurich
8 Einstein Seeks a Position
9 Physics Group
10 Philosophy Group
11 Annus Mirabilis
12 German Scientists Respond to Einstein’s Relativity Paper
13 Einstein Teaches His Three Friends at the University of Bern
14 Einstein Leaves the Patent Office For his First Post in Zurich
15 Minkowski's Space-Time Formalism of Special Relativity
B. Fizeau's and Michelson and Morley's Experiments.89
1 Fresnel's Dragging Coefficient and Fizeau's Experiment of 1851
2 The Michelson and Michelson-Morley Experiment
3. Magnet and Conductor and Giving Up the Ether in Fin De Siècle Physics
C. Einstein's Pathway to the Special Theory of Relativity.112
1 Introduction
2 Einstein Believes in the Ether
3 The Chasing a Light Beam Thought Experiment
4 Magnet and Conductor Thought Experiment
5 Ether Drift and Michelson and Morley’s Experiment
6 Emission Theory and Ether Drift Experiments
7 Einstein's Route to Special Relativity from 1895 to 1903-1904
VUl
Table of Contents
8 "The Step"
9 Einstein’s Steps Toward the "The Step"
10 Biographical Sketch of Poincare
11 Poincare’s Possible Influence on Einstein’s Pathway toward Special Relativity
12 Did Poincare Explore the Inertial Mass-Energy Equivalence?
13 Poincare's Groups and Conventions
D. The Meaning of Einstein's 1905 Special Relativity.203
1 Einstein's Methodology and Creativity
2 Kinematics of a "Rigid Body" - No Such Thing
3 Distant Simultaneity
4 Challenges to Einstein's Connection of Synchronisation
and Contraction
5 Derivation of the Lorentz Transformation
6 Relativistic Addition Theorem for Velocities and Superluminal
Velocities
7 Laue's Derivation of Fresnel’s Formula
8 Einstein's Clocks and Langevin’s Twins
9 The Magnet and Conductor Thought Experiment
10 Relativity and the Light Quantum
11 Kauimann's Experiments: "Kugeltheorie" and "Relativtheorie"
12 The Principles of Relativity as Heuristic Principles
13 The Dayton Miller Experiments
Appendix: The Sources.293
1. Introduction
2. Documentary and Non-Documentary Biographies
3 Autobiographies, Memories and Popular Accounts
4 Primaiy Sources for the Historical Road that Led Einstein
to Special Relativity
5 Old Biographies of Poincare
References.335
Notes.358
Index.371
This book pieces together the jigsaw puzzle of Einstein’s journey to discovering the special theory of relativity. Between 1902 and 1905, Einstein sat in the Patent Office and may have made calculations on old pieces of paper that were once patent drafts. One can imagine Einstein trying to hide from his boss, writing notes on small sheets of paper, and, according to reports, seeing to it that the small sheets of paper on which he was writing would vanish into his desk-drawer as soon as he heard footsteps approaching his door. He probably discarded many pieces of papers and calculations and flung them in the waste paper basket in the Patent Office. The end result was that Einstein published nothing regarding the special theory of relativity prior to 1905. For many years before 1905, he had been intensely concerned with the topic; in fact, he was busily working on the problem for seven or eight years prior to 1905. Unfortunately, there are no surviving notebooks and manuscripts, no notes and papers or other primary sources from this critical period to provide any information about the crucial steps that led Einstein to his great discovery.
In May 1905, Henri Poincare sent three letters to Hendrik Lorentz at the same time that Einstein wrote his famous May 1905 letter to Conrad Habicht, promising him four works, of which the fourth one, Relativity, was a rough draft at that point. In the May 1905 letters to Lorentz, Poincare presented the basic equations of his 1905 “Dynamics of the Electron”, meaning that, at this point, Poincare and Einstein both had drafts of papers relating to the principle of relativity. The book discusses Einstein’s and Poincare’s creativity and the process by which their ideas developed.
The book also explores the misunderstandings and paradoxes apparent in the theory of relativity, and unravels the subtleties and creativity of Einstein.
Dr Galina Weinstein is a historian of modern physics, specialising in the work of Albert Einstein and in the Special and General Theories of Relativity. Dr Weinstein has been the recipient of several prestigious awards in recent years, including two German Israeli Foundation for Research (GIF) grants to conduct extended research in Germany, several post-doctoral fellowships, and prizes during her doctoral studies. She worked as an Invited Guest Research Associate in REHSEIS at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris, and in the Center for Einstein Studies at Boston University. |
| any_adam_object | 1 |
| author | Weinstein, Galina |
| author_GND | (DE-588)1073649113 |
| author_facet | Weinstein, Galina |
| author_role | aut |
| author_sort | Weinstein, Galina |
| author_variant | g w gw |
| building | Verbundindex |
| bvnumber | BV042622332 |
| classification_rvk | UB 2420 |
| ctrlnum | (OCoLC)913580486 (DE-599)BVBBV042622332 |
| discipline | Physik |
| edition | 1. publ. |
| era | Geschichte 1902-1905 gnd |
| era_facet | Geschichte 1902-1905 |
| format | Book |
| fullrecord | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><collection xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim"><record><leader>00000nam a2200000 c 4500</leader><controlfield tag="001">BV042622332</controlfield><controlfield tag="003">DE-604</controlfield><controlfield tag="005">20160510</controlfield><controlfield tag="007">t|</controlfield><controlfield tag="008">150617s2015 xx |||| 00||| eng d</controlfield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="z">1443874345</subfield><subfield code="c">hardback</subfield><subfield code="9">1-4438-7434-5</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="z">9781443874342</subfield><subfield code="c">hardback</subfield><subfield code="9">978-1-4438-7434-2</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)913580486</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(DE-599)BVBBV042622332</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="040" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-604</subfield><subfield code="b">ger</subfield><subfield code="e">rakwb</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="041" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">eng</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="049" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-12</subfield><subfield code="a">DE-703</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="084" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">UB 2420</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-625)145310:</subfield><subfield code="2">rvk</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="100" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Weinstein, Galina</subfield><subfield code="e">Verfasser</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)1073649113</subfield><subfield code="4">aut</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="245" ind1="1" ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Einstein's pathway to the special theory of relativity</subfield><subfield code="c">Galina Weinstein</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="250" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">1. publ.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="1"><subfield code="a">Newcastle upon Tyne</subfield><subfield code="b">Cambridge Scholars Publ.</subfield><subfield code="c">2015</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="300" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">X, 384 S.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="336" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">txt</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacontent</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="337" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">n</subfield><subfield code="2">rdamedia</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="338" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">nc</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacarrier</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="600" ind1="1" ind2="7"><subfield code="a">Einstein, Albert</subfield><subfield code="d">1879-1955</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)118529579</subfield><subfield code="2">gnd</subfield><subfield code="9">rswk-swf</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="648" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">Geschichte 1902-1905</subfield><subfield code="2">gnd</subfield><subfield code="9">rswk-swf</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">Special relativity (Physics) / History</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">Geschichte</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1="0" ind2="7"><subfield code="a">Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)4112491-1</subfield><subfield code="2">gnd</subfield><subfield code="9">rswk-swf</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="689" ind1="0" ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Einstein, Albert</subfield><subfield code="d">1879-1955</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)118529579</subfield><subfield code="D">p</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="689" ind1="0" ind2="1"><subfield code="a">Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)4112491-1</subfield><subfield code="D">s</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="689" ind1="0" ind2="2"><subfield code="a">Geschichte 1902-1905</subfield><subfield code="A">z</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="689" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="C">b</subfield><subfield code="5">DE-604</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="2"><subfield code="m">Digitalisierung UB Bayreuth - ADAM Catalogue Enrichment</subfield><subfield code="q">application/pdf</subfield><subfield code="u">http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=028055023&sequence=000003&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA</subfield><subfield code="3">Inhaltsverzeichnis</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="2"><subfield code="m">Digitalisierung UB Bayreuth - ADAM Catalogue Enrichment</subfield><subfield code="q">application/pdf</subfield><subfield code="u">http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=028055023&sequence=000004&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA</subfield><subfield code="3">Klappentext</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="940" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="n">DHB</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="940" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="q">DHB_BSB_DDC1</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="940" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="q">DHB_JDG_ISBN_1</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="942" ind1="1" ind2="1"><subfield code="c">509</subfield><subfield code="e">22/bsb</subfield><subfield code="f">09041</subfield><subfield code="g">43</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="943" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-028055023</subfield></datafield></record></collection> |
| id | DE-604.BV042622332 |
| illustrated | Not Illustrated |
| indexdate | 2025-02-21T17:01:38Z |
| institution | BVB |
| language | English |
| oai_aleph_id | oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-028055023 |
| oclc_num | 913580486 |
| open_access_boolean | |
| owner | DE-12 DE-703 |
| owner_facet | DE-12 DE-703 |
| physical | X, 384 S. |
| psigel | DHB_BSB_DDC1 DHB_JDG_ISBN_1 |
| publishDate | 2015 |
| publishDateSearch | 2015 |
| publishDateSort | 2015 |
| publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publ. |
| record_format | marc |
| spelling | Weinstein, Galina Verfasser (DE-588)1073649113 aut Einstein's pathway to the special theory of relativity Galina Weinstein 1. publ. Newcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars Publ. 2015 X, 384 S. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Einstein, Albert 1879-1955 (DE-588)118529579 gnd rswk-swf Geschichte 1902-1905 gnd rswk-swf Special relativity (Physics) / History Geschichte Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie (DE-588)4112491-1 gnd rswk-swf Einstein, Albert 1879-1955 (DE-588)118529579 p Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie (DE-588)4112491-1 s Geschichte 1902-1905 z b DE-604 Digitalisierung UB Bayreuth - ADAM Catalogue Enrichment application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=028055023&sequence=000003&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis Digitalisierung UB Bayreuth - ADAM Catalogue Enrichment application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=028055023&sequence=000004&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Klappentext |
| spellingShingle | Weinstein, Galina Einstein's pathway to the special theory of relativity Einstein, Albert 1879-1955 (DE-588)118529579 gnd Special relativity (Physics) / History Geschichte Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie (DE-588)4112491-1 gnd |
| subject_GND | (DE-588)118529579 (DE-588)4112491-1 |
| title | Einstein's pathway to the special theory of relativity |
| title_auth | Einstein's pathway to the special theory of relativity |
| title_exact_search | Einstein's pathway to the special theory of relativity |
| title_full | Einstein's pathway to the special theory of relativity Galina Weinstein |
| title_fullStr | Einstein's pathway to the special theory of relativity Galina Weinstein |
| title_full_unstemmed | Einstein's pathway to the special theory of relativity Galina Weinstein |
| title_short | Einstein's pathway to the special theory of relativity |
| title_sort | einstein s pathway to the special theory of relativity |
| topic | Einstein, Albert 1879-1955 (DE-588)118529579 gnd Special relativity (Physics) / History Geschichte Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie (DE-588)4112491-1 gnd |
| topic_facet | Einstein, Albert 1879-1955 Special relativity (Physics) / History Geschichte Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie |
| url | http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=028055023&sequence=000003&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=028055023&sequence=000004&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT weinsteingalina einsteinspathwaytothespecialtheoryofrelativity |