Physics Before and After Einstein
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Author(s): M. Mamone Capria (Ed.)
Publisher: IOS Press
ISBN: 1586034626
Format: hardback
324pp
Price: £80.00, $147.00, €120
Review Date: 15 June 2005
Review: To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein’s submission of some of his most influential works for publication, this book looks at the history of physics from the late 19th century to the present day. The thirteen chapters are written for both specialists and those with only an undergraduate knowledge of maths and physics. Chapters cover: Einstein’s life; late-nineteenth-century mechanics and electromagnetism, and mechanistic science; the origins and concepts of special relativity; general relativity; cosmology – from the static to the expanding Universe; testing relativity; Einstein and quantum theory; the quantum debate; special relativity and high energy particles; quantum theory and gravitation; superluminal waves and objects; and standard cosmology and other possible universes.