Author Miller, Arthur I., author.

Title Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity : emergence (1905) and early interpretation, 1905-1911 / Arthur I. Miller.

Imprint Reading, MA : Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., Advanced Book Program, 1981.
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 Monograph Collection  QC173.52 .M55 1981  AVAILABLE
Description xxviii, 466 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-440) and index.
Contents Electrodynamics : 1890-1905 -- Einstein's philosophic viewpoint in 1905 -- An analysis of Einstein's introductory comments -- Simultaneity and time -- Length and time are relative quantities -- The relativitism transformations -- The relativity of length and time -- The theorem of addition of velocities -- The relativity of the electric and magnetic fields -- Doppler's principle and stellar aberration -- On the electrodynamics of moving bodies.
Local Note Gift of Dr. Ted Davis, December 2021.
Othmer Library copy is missing the title page.
Subject(s) Relativity (Physics) -- History.
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
Physics -- History.
Physicists -- Biography.