2005年2月18日金曜日

Free Einstein Issue of "Physics World" (『物理学の世界』アインシュタイン特集号が無料)

 IOP(ヨーロッパの物理学会)発行の『物理学の世界』誌のアインシュタイン特集号が一定期間、同誌ウエブサイトから、PDFファイル(4.1 Mb, 72ページ)として無料でダウンロード出来る。

A special issue of "Physics World," entitled "Einstein 2005," has been published and can be downloaded as a PDF file (4.1 Mb, 72 pages) free of charge at the website of this magazine for a fixed period. The articles included are as follows:

EINSTEIN 2005
Ahead of his time Peter Rodgers
A brief history of Albert Einstein Matin Durrani
Einstein and the International Year of Physics
Five papers that shook the world Matthew Chalmers

Einstein's random walk
Few physicists believed that atoms were real before Einstein's theoretical work on Brownian motion paved the way for experimental confirmation, as Mark Haw describes
The 1919 eclipse: a celebrity is born Matthew Stanley

Relativity at the centenary
As we enter a new era of experiments, Einstein's general theory of relativity remains the leading theory of gravity, as Clifford M Will explains
Relativity - putting Einstein to the test
Brownian motion - atoms made real
Einstein and his love of music Brian Foster
Looking after the image of a legend Peter Gwynne

The search for gravitational waves
The detection of ripples in the fabric of space-time is one of the outstanding challenges in experimental physics. Jim Hough and Sheila Rowan report on progress
A very special centenary Robert Bluhm
Strange ways of light and atoms Charles W Clark
Quiz: Do you play dice?

The power of entanglement
Einstein disliked the random nature of quantum mechanics but he was still influential in the development of the theory, as Harald Weinfurter relates
Gravitational waves - still searching
The other side of Albert Einstein Tim Chapman
The king is dead. Long live the king! Robert P Crease
Einstein's quest for unification John Ellis

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