Thursday, June 30, 2005
Annus Mirabilis, 1905
2005 has been declared the World Year of Physics, in honor of the seminal work done by Einstein in 1905 when he published four papers that together have no peer in terms of 20th century scientific impact.
Photoelectric effect
Brownian motion
Special relativity
Matter and energy equivalence
Einstein's theories are being explored and refined even up to today.
Everyone should know a little Einstein. Until the end of the month, you can get two lectures (free!) from The Teaching Company. I don't know how good these lectures are, but I've erred on the side of (free!) instructional videos.
All of these links came from a Slashdot thread on this subject. I had been meaning to do a small blog post on this for a while, but it is so much easier when other people get the good links for me!
Photoelectric effect
Brownian motion
Special relativity
Matter and energy equivalence
Einstein's theories are being explored and refined even up to today.
Everyone should know a little Einstein. Until the end of the month, you can get two lectures (free!) from The Teaching Company. I don't know how good these lectures are, but I've erred on the side of (free!) instructional videos.
All of these links came from a Slashdot thread on this subject. I had been meaning to do a small blog post on this for a while, but it is so much easier when other people get the good links for me!
