Atoms, Quanta, and Relativity Derived, Explained, and Appraised
- PART I ATOMIC NATURE OF MATTER
- Molecular size from classical fluids
- The Brownian motion
- PART II QUANTUM THEORY
- Blackbody radiation: From Kirchhoff to Planck
- Einstein’s proposal of light quanta
- Quantum theory of specific heat
- Waves, particles, and quantum jumps
- Bose–Einstein statistics and condensation
- Local reality and the Einstein–Bohr debate
- PART III SPECIAL RELATIVITY
- Prelude to special relativity
- The new kinematics and E = mc2
- Geometric formulation of relativity
- PART IV GENERAL RELATIVITY
- Towards a general theory of relativity
- Curved spacetime as a gravitational field
- The Einstein field equation
- Cosmology
- PART V WALKING IN EINSTEIN’S STEPS
- Internal symmetry and gauge interactions
- The Kaluza–Klein theory and extra dimensions
- PART VI APPENDICES
- A – Mathematics supplements
- B – Einstein’s papers