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Einsteins Pathway to the Special Theory of Relativity 1st Edition by Galina Weinstein ISBN 1443874345 9781443874342

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Author(s): Galina Weinstein

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Year: 2015

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Author: Galina Weinstein

Einstein’s Pathway to the Special Theory of Relativity 1st Edition:

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 Poincaré 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, Poincaré presented the basic equations of his 1905 “Dynamics of the Electron”, meaning that, at this point, Poincaré and Einstein both had drafts of papers relating to the principle of relativity. The book discusses Einstein’s and Poincaré’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.

Einstein’s Pathway to the Special Theory of Relativity 1st Edition Table of contents:

A. From Einstein’s Childhood to Patent Office ………………………………….. 18

Einstein’s Parents and Sister Maja
The Move to Munich and the Electric Firm
Rebellious and Creative
Einstein Cannot Take Authority and Demands for Obedience
Einstein Teaches Himself Natural Science and Philosophy
Secondary School in Aarau
Polytechnic in Zurich
Einstein Seeks a Position
Physics Group
Philosophy Group
Annus Mirabilis
German Scientists Respond to Einstein’s Relativity Paper
Einstein Teaches His Three Friends at the University of Bern
Einstein Leaves the Patent Office for His First Post in Zurich
Minkowski’s Space-Time Formalism of Special Relativity

B. Fizeau’s and Michelson and Morley’s Experiments ………………………… 89

Fresnel’s Dragging Coefficient and Fizeau’s Experiment of 1851
The Michelson and Michelson-Morley Experiment
Magnet and Conductor, and Giving Up the Ether in Fin De Siècle Physics

C. Einstein’s Pathway to the Special Theory of Relativity …………………. 112

Introduction
Einstein Believes in the Ether
The Chasing a Light Beam Thought Experiment
Magnet and Conductor Thought Experiment
Ether Drift and Michelson and Morley’s Experiment
Emission Theory and Ether Drift Experiments
Einstein’s Route to Special Relativity from 1895 to 1903-1904
“The Step”
Einstein’s Steps Toward “The Step”
Biographical Sketch of Poincaré
Poincaré’s Possible Influence on Einstein’s Pathway Toward Special Relativity
Did Poincaré Explore the Inertial Mass-Energy Equivalence?
Poincaré’s Groups and Conventions

D. The Meaning of Einstein’s 1905 Special Relativity ………………………. 203

Einstein’s Methodology and Creativity
Kinematics of a “Rigid Body” – No Such Thing
Distant Simultaneity
Challenges to Einstein’s Connection of Synchronization and Contraction
Derivation of the Lorentz Transformation
Relativistic Addition Theorem for Velocities and Superluminal Velocities
Laue’s Derivation of Fresnel’s Formula
Einstein’s Clocks and Langevin’s Twins
The Magnet and Conductor Thought Experiment
Relativity and the Light Quantum
Kaufmann’s Experiments: “Kugeltheorie” and “Relativtheorie”
The Principles of Relativity as Heuristic Principles
The Dayton Miller Experiments

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