Albert Einstein's theory of relativity

Wilkinson, Carl

Lewis, James Weston

Series: Words that changed the world
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63 pages, colour illustrations
Contents: Who was Albert Einstein? -- Gravity -- Time -- Space -- Light -- Relativity -- Einstein's miraculous year: 1905 -- The four papers -- Theory of special relativity -- Time dilation -- The twin paradox -- Length contraction -- The 4D universe -- E=mc2 -- The general theory of relativity -- Einstein's strange discoveries -- The shape of the universe -- Proof! -- Publication of relativity -- Einstein the celebrity -- Einstein wins the Nobel prize in 1921 -- What Einstein's discoveries contributed to the world -- What we know now -- What's next for Einstein's theory of relativity?
Summary: Understand how Einstein came to write the most famous equation in history -- E=mc2 -- and see how the world was changed forever. This step-by-step through Einstein's mind takes his original manuscripts and makes them accessible to budding scientists everywhere
Words that changed the world.
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20200921102141.0
Location edition Bar Code due date
Non Fiction K63351S
call #:530
ISBN:9781786277503
pub:2020