The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein: The Swiss Years : Writings, 1909-1911 (3) - Brossura

Einstein, Albert

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ISBN 10: 0691102503 ISBN 13: 9780691102504

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 1994

Riassunto

This volume of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein presents Einstein's writings for the two-year period starting in October 1909. The initial date marks Einstein's departure from the Swiss Patent Office at Bern, which had been his professional home for seven years, and the beginning of his first academic appointment, at the University of Zurich. The volume concludes with the masterful report that Einstein, by then a full professor at the German-language university in Prague, gave to the original Solvay Congress, the first international meeting devoted to the problems of radiation and the quantum theory. Most of Einstein's efforts during these years went into his struggle with these ever more perplexing problems of quanta, on which he made discouragingly little progress.


Einstein's new academic career naturally required him to teach, and almost half of this volume consists of the previously unpublished notes he wrote in preparation for his lectures on mechanics, on electricity and magnetism, and on kinetic theory and statistical mechanics. The last of these are particularly interesting in reflecting some of his research interests.


Several papers here are concerned with aspects of the special theory of relativity, but it is Einstein's article of June 1911 that is a harbinger of things to come: it contains his calculation of the bending of light in a gravitational field on the basis of his equivalence principle.



Martin J. Klein is Bass Professor of the History of Science and Professor of Physics at Yale University and Senior Editor of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein. A. J. Kox teaches history of science at the University of Amsterdam, Jürgen Renn is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Physics at Boston University, and Robert Schulmann is Assistant Professor of History at Boston University.

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Publisher's Foreword ix
Preface xi
1. Lecture Notes for Introductory Course on Mechanics at the University of Zurich, Winter Semester 1909/1910 1
2. The Principle of Relativity and Its Consequences in Modern Physics (Le principe de relativité et ses conséquences dans la physique moderne), Archives des sciences physiques et naturelles 29 (910) 117
3. Response to Manuscript of Planck 1910a (Antwort auf Planks Manuskript), Archives des sciences physiques et naturelles 29 (1910) 143
4. Lecture Notes for Course on the Kinetic Theory of Heat at the University of Zurich, Summer Semester 1910 144
5. On the Theory of Light Quanta and the Question of the Localization of Electromagnetic Energy (Sur la théorie des quantités lumineuses et al question de la localisation de l'énergie électromagnetique), Archives des sciences physiques et naturelles 29 (1910) 207
6. On the Ponderomotive Forces Acting on Ferromagnetic Conductors Carrying a Current in a Magnetic Field (Sur les forces pondéromotrices qui agissent sur des conducteurs ferromagnétiques disposés dans un champ magnétique et parcourus par un courant), Archives des sciences physiques et naturelles 30 (1910) 209
7. On a Theorem of the Probability Calculus and Its Application in the Theory of Radiation (Über einen Satz der Wahrescheinlichkeitsrechnung und seine Anwendung in der Strahlungstheorie), with Ludwig Hopf, Annalen der Physik 33 (1910) 211
8. Statistical Investigation of a Resonator's Motion in a Radiation Field (Statistische Untersuchung der Bewegung eines Resonators in einem Strahlungsfeld), with Ludwig Hopf, Annalen der Physik 33 (1910) 220
9. The Theory of the Opalescence of Homogeneous Fluids and Liquid Mixtures near the Critical State (Theorie der Opaleszenz von homogenen Flüssigkeiten und Flüssigkeitsgemischen in der Nähe des kritischen Zustandes), Annalen der Physik 33, 1910 231
10. Comments on P. Hertz's Papers: "On the Mechanical Foundations of Thermodynamics" (Bemerkungen zu den P. Hertzschen Arbeiten: "Über die mechanischen Grundlagen der Thermodynamck"), Annalen der Physik 34 (1911) 250
11. Lecture Notes for Course on Electricity and Magnetism at the University of Zurich, Winter Semester 1910/11 (Einführung in die Theorie der Elektrizität und des Magnetismus) 251
12. Comment on Eötvös's Law (Bemerkung zu dem Gesetz von Eötvös),
Annalen der Physik 34 (1911) 328
13. A Relationship between Elastic Behavior and Specific Heat in Solids with a Monatomic Molecule (Eine Beziehung zwischen dem elastischen Verhalten and der spezifischen Wärme bei festen Körpern mit einatomigem Molekül), Annalen der Physik 34 (1911) 332
14. Correction to My Paper: "A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions" (Berichtigung zu meiner Arbeit: "Eine neue Bestimmung der Molekuldimensionen"), Annalen der Physik 34 (1911) 336
15. Comment on My Paper: "A Relationship between Elastic Behavior. . . " (Bemerkung zu meiner Arbeit: "Eine Beziehung zwischen dem elastischen Verhalten . . . "), Annalen der Physik 34 (1911) 338
16. Comment on a Fundamental Difficulty in Theoretical Physics (Bemerkung Über Eine fundamentale Schwierigkeit in der Theoretischen Physik) (1911) 339
17. The Theory of Relativity (Die Relativitäts-Theorie), Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Zurich. Yerteljahrsschrift 56 (1911) 340
18. "Discussion" Following Lecture Version of "The Theory of Relativity," Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Zürich. Sitzungsberichte (1911) 351
19. Notes for a Lecture on Fluctuations (10 February 1911) 359
20. Statement on the Light Quantum Hypothesis, Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Zürich. Sitzungsberichte (1911) 364
21. Elementary Observations on Thermal Molecular Motion in Solids (Elementare Betrachtungen über die thermische Molekularbewegung in festen Körpern), Annalen der Physik 35 (1911) 365
22. On the Ehrenfest Paradox. Comment on V. Varičak's Paper (Zum Ehrenfestschen Paradoxon. Bemerkung zu V. Varičak's Aufsatz) Physikalische Zeitschrift 12 (1911) 378
23. On the Influence of Gravitation on the Propagation of Light (Über den Einflutß der Schwerkraft auf die Ausbreitung des Lichtes), Annalen der Physik 35 (1911) 379
24. Excerpts of Discussions Following Lectures Delivered at 83rd Meeting of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher and Ärzte, 25 and 27 September 1911, Physikalische Zeitschrift 12 (1911) 388
25. Discussion Remarks Following Lectures Delivered at First Solvay Congress (1911) 391
26. On the Present State of the Problem of Specific Heats (Zum gegenwärtigen Stande des Problems der spezifischen Wärme), in Eucken, Arnold, ed., Die Theorie der Strahlung und der Quanten. Verhandlungen auf einer von E. Solvay einberufenen Zusammenkunft (30. Oktober bis 3. November 1911), mit einem Anhange über die Entwicklung der Quantentheorie vom Herbst 1911 bis Sommer 1913. Halle a. S.: Knapp, 1914. (Abhandlungen der Deutschen Bunsen Gesellschaft für angewandte physikalische Chemie, vol. 3, no. 7) 402
27. "Discussion" Following Lecture, "The Present State of the Problem of Specific Heats" (Doc. 26), 3 November 1911 426

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0691102503
• ISBN 13: 9780691102504
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 452
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