The Britannica Guide to Relativity and Quantum Mechanics

The Britannica Guide to Relativity and Quantum Mechanics by Erik Gregersen
R.sen Ed..tional S.rvices | 2011 | ISBN: 1615303308 | 249 pages | PDF | 3 MB

This volume deals with relativity and quantum mechanics. Both of these are quite new areas of physics. The beginning of relativity can be dated quite precisely, to the year 1905, when a clerk in the Swiss patent of?ce published a paper On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies. The
beginnings of quantum mechanics can be dated to 1900 when the German physicist Max Planck explained the emission of light from a blackbody as the emission not of a continuous stream of particles or waves, but a stream of discrete packets of energy called quanta...

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