
Albert Einstein's theory of relativity
Wilkinson, Carl
Lewis, James Weston
Series: Words that changed the worldNotes
63 pages, colour illustrationsContents: 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
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20200921102141.0Location | edition | Bar Code | due date |
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Non Fiction | K63351S |
call #: | 530 |
ISBN: | 9781786277503 |
pub: | 2020 |
Subjects |
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Einstein, Albert |
Relativity (Physics) |