The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 2: The Swiss Years: Writings, 1900-1909

Neuausgabe 1990
ISBN: 978-0-691-08526-5
Verlag: PRINCETON UNIV PR

Buch, Deutsch, Band Volume 2., 696 Seiten, Format (B × H): 205 mm x 261 mm, Gewicht: 1606 g

Reihe: Collected Papers of Albert Einstein

This volume of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein contains the scientific work Einstein published during the first decade of his career, and includes some of the most significant achievements of twentieth-century physics. The first paper was written in 1900 by the twenty-one-year-old Einstein, newly graduated from the Swiss Federal Polytechnical School, or ETH, in Zurich and still searching in vain for a job. The last paper in this volume is the text of an invited lecture given in 1909 to a major scientific meeting by Einstein after he was appointed to his first academic post at the University of Zurich. He had already been recognized as an important theoretical physicist on the basis of the work reprinted here, particularly the three masterpieces that appeared in quick succession during 1905, Einstein's year of miracles. In one of these papers Einstein showed how one could finally confirm the ancient view that matter is composed of discrete atoms, and even measure the numbers and masses of these atoms. In a second paper, which even he referred to as "very revolutionary," he argued that the observed properties of thermal radiation suggest that it consists not of waves, but rather of localized particles of energy which he called energy quanta. The third and most famous paper set forth the special theory of relativity, solving some long-standing difficulties, but requiring a significant change in our understanding of those basic concepts, space and time.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Einstein, Albert

Stachel, John

Cassidy, David C.

Renn, Jürgen

Schulmann, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Theoretische Physik, Mathematische Physik, Computerphysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Experimentalphysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Geschichte der Physik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Texts ix

INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL

Introduction to Volume 2 xvi

Supplement to the Editorial Method in Volume One xxxi

A Note on Secondary Literature xxxiii

Acknowledgments xxxiv

Translation xxxv

List of Location Symbols xxxvi

TEXTS 3

Editoral Note: Einstein on the Nature of Molecular Forces 3

1. "Conclusions Drawn from the Phenomena of Capillarity," 13 December 1900 "Folgerungen aus den Capillarit?tserscheinungen"

Annalen der Physik 4 (1901) 9

2. "On the Thermodynamic Theory of the Difference in Potentials between Metals and Fully Dissociated Solutions of Their Salts and on an Electrical Method for Investigating Molecular Forces," April 1902

"Ueber die thermodynamische Theorie der Potentialdifferenz zwischen Metallen und vollst?ndig dissociirten L?sungen ihrer Salze und ?ber eine elektrische Methode zur Erforschung der Molecularkr?fte"

Annalen der Physik 8 (1902) 22

Editorial Note: Einstein on the Foundations of Statistical Physics 41

3. "Kinetic Theory of Thermal Equilibrium and of the Second Law of Thermodynamics," June 1902

"Kinetische Theorie des W?rmegleichgewichtes und des zweiten Hauptsatzes der Thermodynamik"

Annalen der Physik 9 (1902) 56

4. "A Theory of the Foundations of Thermodynamics," January 1903

"Eine Theorie der Grundlagen der Thermodynamik"

Annalen der Physik 11 (1903) 76

5. "On the General Molecular Theory of Heat," 27 March 1904

"Zur allgemeinen molekularen Theorie der W?rme"

Annalen der Physik 14 (1904) 98

Editorial Note: Einstein's Reviews for the Beibl?tter zu den Annalen der Physik 109

6. Review of Giuseppe Belluzzo, "Principles of Graphic Thermodynamics," first half of March 1905

"Principi di termodinamica grafica"

Beibl?tter zu den Annalen der Physik 29 (1905) 112

7. Review of Albert Fliegner, "On Clausius's Law of Entropy," first half of March 1905

"?ber den Clausius'schen Entropiesatz"

Beibl?tter zu den Annalen der Physik 29 (1905) 115

8. Review of William McFadden Orr, "On Clausius' Theorem for Irreversible Cycles, and on the Increase of Entropy," first half of March 1905

Beibl?tter zu den Annalen der Physik 29 (1905) 118

9. Review of George Hartley Bryan, "The Law of Degradation of Energy as the Fundamental Principle of Thermodynamics," first half of March 1905

Beibl?tter zu den Annalen der Physik 29 (1905) 120

10. Review of Nikolay Nikolayevich Schiller, "Some Concerns Regarding the Theory of Entropy Increase Due to the Diffusion of Gases Where the Initial Pressures of the Latter Are Equal," first half of March 1905 "Einige Bedenken betreffend die Theorie der Entropievermehrung durch Diffusion der Gase bei einander gleichen Anfangsspannungen der letzteren"

Beibl?tter zu den Annalen der Physik 29 (1905) 122

11. Review of Jakob Johann Weyrauch, "On the Specific Heats of Superheated Water Vapor," first half of March 1905

"Ueber die spezifischen W?rmen des ?berhitzten Wasserdampfes"

Beibl?tter zu den Annalen der Physik 29 (1905) 125

12. Review of Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, "The Influence of the Change in Specific Heat on the Work of Conversion," first half of March 1905

"Einflu? der ?nderung der spezifischen W?rme auf die Umwandlungsarbeit"

Beibl?tter zu den Annalen der Physik 29 (1905) 127

13. Review of Arturo Giammarco, "A Case of Corresponding States in Thermodynamics," first half of March 1905
"Un caso di corrispondenza in termodinamica"

Beibl?tter zu den Annalen der Physik 29 (1905) 131

Editorial Note: Einstein's Early Work on the Quantum Hypothesis 134

14. "On a Heuristic Point of View Concerning the Production and Transformation of Light," 17 March 1905

"?ber einen die Erzeugung und Verwandlung des Lichtes betreffenden heuristischen Gesichtspunkt"

Annalen der Physik 17 (1905) 149

Editorial Note: Einstein's Dissertation on the Determination of Molecular Dimensions 170

15. A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions (University of Zurich