1. Albert Einstein and 100 Years of Relativity
Christopher M. Johns-Krull
Rice University, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
October 10, 2016

2. Einstein Born 1879, Ulm, Kingdon of Würtmburg, German Empire
BA 1900, Swiss Federal Polytechnic, physics & math
1902 marries Mileva Maric
Swiss Patent Office
1905 Miraculous Year: photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, special relativity, equivalence of mass & energy
PhD 1905, Univ. of Zurich, Molecular Dimensions
1915 General Relativity
1921 Nobel Prize, chiefly for photoelectric effect
1933 Emigrated to US
1940 US Citizen
Died 1955, Princeton, NJ

3. History of Light

4. Olaus Romer and the Speed of Light
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1676: Method is sound but the size of an AU was not well known 4

5. Fizeau-Foucault Method
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1850: Accurate value determined - c = 299, km/s 5

6. What is Light? Where does the color come from?
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Where does the color come from? 6

7. Color is an Intrinsic Property
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Where does the color come from? 7

8. Interference & Particles
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9. What if Light Was a Wave?
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10. Waves Suffer Interference
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11. Young’s Double Slit Experiment
1801
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12. Young’s Double Slit Experiment
1801
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13. Young’s Double Slit Experiment
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14. Photoelectric Effect
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15. The Photon
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16. The Electromagnetic Wave
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17. The Spectrum of Radiation
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18. The Wavelength of Particles
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19. The Blackbody Spectrum
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20. Brownian Motion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xscn-QSmFo4
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21. Brownian Motion Proved that atoms & molecules exist
Nature is not continuous
Gave estimates of their number & mass
Ph.D. Thesis research
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22. The Theory of Special Relativity
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23. The Setting
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24. The Gravitational Field
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25. The Electric Field
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26. When the Charge Moves
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27. When the Charge Moves: Light!
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28. What About Gravity?
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29. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) Mountains on the Moon The Milky Way
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Mountains on the Moon
The Milky Way
Sunspots
Rings of Saturn
Phases of Venus
Moons of Jupiter

30. Father of Experimental Physics
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31. The Moon and Sun
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32. Phases of Venus
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33. Phases of Venus
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34. Moons of Jupiter
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35. Velocities at the Speed of Life
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36. Galilean Transformations
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37. The laws of physics are the same for all observers
Special Relativity’s Postulates
The laws of physics are the same for all observers
The speed of light is the same for all observes
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38. The Laws of Physics
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39. The Speed of Light He actually first tried an offset circle. 39
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40. Relative Speeds Change How They Add
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41. Faster than Light Travel – NO!
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