Department of
Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Slide 13
Einstein's
Theories:
The miraculous year 1905.
¥In 1905 Einstein submitted three famous papers to the Annalen
der Physik (a German physics journal) covering the following topics:
¥The photoelectric effect.
¥An experimental test of the kinetic theory of
heat.
¥The special theory of
relativity.
¥We will now briefly describe how these theories
changed the world of physics
before focusing in more detail on Einstein's theories of relativity (special
and general).
Electrodynamics
of Moving Bodies (1905)