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Title: The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein: The Swiss Years Writings, 1909-1911

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Series:             COLLECTED PAPERS OF ALBERT EINSTEIN
Language:        English

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Weight:        3.4 Pounds
Height:         10.3 Inches
Width:          8 Inches
Thickness:    2 Inches



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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new academic career naturally required him to teach, and almost half of this volume consists of the previously unpublished notes he wrote in preparation for his lectures on mechanics, on electricity and magnetism, and on kinetic theory and statistical mechanics.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.



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Book Details Summary: The title of this book is The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein: The Swiss Years Writings, 1909-1911 and it was written by Jurgen Renn, A. J. Kox, Robert Schulmann (Editor), Martin J. Klein. This edition of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein: The Swiss Years Writings, 1909-1911 is in a Hardcover format. This books publish date is December 1993 and it has a suggested retail price of $125. There are pages in the book and it was published by Princeton Univ Pr. The 10 digit ISBN is 0691087725 and the 13 digit ISBN is 9780691087726. For the most current lowest price, Click Here.