Light Quanta and Molecules: A Contribution to the Annus Mirabilis
History and Philosophy of Physics
2007-05-23 v3
Abstract
Einstein's contributions to statistical mechanics and quantum theory are reviewed. We also provide a detailed discussion of his thesis on suspensions that led to a good value of the Avogadro number.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0507118,
title = {Light Quanta and Molecules: A Contribution to the Annus Mirabilis},
author = {Norbert Straumann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0507118},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
24 pages, Kepler Lecture in Tuebingen, in german