Chapter 15
Special and General Relativity

Annus Mirabilis

Original

  • Photoelectric effect
  • Brownian motion
  • Moving bodies
  • Mass-energy
  • Molecular sizes

    • English translations

  • Photoelectric effect
  • Browninan motion
  • Moving bodies
  • Mass-energy
  • Einstein's dissertation
  • Brownian motion applet
  • Hot hands?

    • Quantum Epilogue

  • The photon and the quantum
  • Wien and Stefan-Boltzmann laws
  • Blackbody radiation
  • Pieces of calculation
  • Phase space
  • Distributions
  • Model for distributions
  • Photon gas
  • Continuous average
  • Discrete average
  • Einstein formulation
  • In modern quantities
  • Bose
  • Rayleigh-Jeans
  • Wien
  • Planck
  • Origin of the word photon

    • Special Relativity

  • Space and time

    • Michelson-Morley experiment
  • Speed of the earth
  • Boats and rivers
  • Round trip times
  • Michelson interferometer
  • Ripples on water
    Transformations
  • Voigt transformation
  • Length contraction and time dilation
  • Example of time dilation
  • Diagram of time dilation
    Velocity addition
  • Velocity transformation
  • Examples
    Coulomb's law and magnetism
  • Contraction in a current carrying wire
  • Reverse direction
    Momentum and Energy
  • Other 4-vectors
  • Transformation
  • Rest system
  • Momentum and energy
  • Energy expansion
  • Longitudinal and transverse "mass"

    General Relativity

    Equivalence

  • Principle of Equivalence
  • Time and gravitational mass

    • Tests of predictions

  • Kepler's second law
  • Perihelion
  • Schwarzchild solution & spin-orbit
  • Average values
  • Compare with Krane
  • Data
  • Computations
  • Results

    • Black holes

  • Black holes - Pierre-Simon Laplace
  • Black Holes - John Michel
  • Escape velocity