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uÚ ert Einstein is rn t Hermann Einstein a
sa esman and engineer and his wife Pau ine in U m,
Germany.
uResidences Germany, Ita y, Switzer and, and USÚ.
uEthnicity Úshkenazi Jewish
u Knwn fr Genera re ativity, Specia re ativity,
Phte ectric effect ,Brwnian mtin, Mass-energy
equiva ence, Einstein fie d equatins, Unified Fie d
Thery, Bse±Einstein statistics
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uÚ thugh Jewish, Ú ert Einstein attended a
Cath ic Sch .
uÚ thugh Einstein had ear y speech
difficu ties (he ften said he used t repeat his
wn sentences), he was a tp student in
e ementary sch .
uEinstein fami y mved t Ita y, Einstein had
een eft ehind t finish high sch , ut he
withdrew t jin his fami y .
uRather than cmp eting high sch , Einstein
decided t app y direct y t the ETH Zurich,
the Swiss Federa Institute f Techn gy in
Zürich which he did nt get int .
uHis fami y sent him away t finish secndary
sch .
uIn 1901, the year he gained his dip ma.
uIn 1905 he tained his dctr's degree.
uEinstein and Mi eva had three
chi dren: a daughter rn efre
their marriage and tw sns.
uEinstein never met his daughter
Lieser and, thugh there is n
fficia recrd f her, it is e ieved
she died efre the age f tw.
uTheir first sn, Hans Ú ert,
studied engineering in Zurich and
ater mved t the United States
with his wife and chi dren.
uTheir secnd sn, Eduard, spent
mst f his adu t ife
institutina ized with u?
schizphrenia
uÚ ert and Marić divrced n 14
Feruary 1919. u ?
u Einstein married E sa
Löwentha , wh had nursed him ?
thrugh an i ness.
Befre Einstein n ne rea y
understd hw ight rea y wrked.
It was a wave, partice s,quanta n
ne rea y new. Light did nt f w
Newtnians physics. In 1905 Einstein
put ut a paper that dec ared ight,
trave s as th a wave and as
partic es ca ed quanta, mst y
ecause it has t.
The Einstein fie d equatins are a
set f ten equatins in Einstein's
thery f genera re ativity in which
the fundamenta frce f gravitatin is
descried as a curved space time
caused y matter and energy. They
were first pu ished in 1915. The
Einstein fie d equatins are used t
determine the curvature f space time
resu ting frm the presence f mass
and energy. That is, they determine the
metric tensr f space time fr a given
arrangement f stress-energy in the
space time.
First Part: Specia re ativity
The Thery f Re ativity as tw parts. First part specia re ativity secnd part genera
re ativity. Specia re ativity is ased n tw pstu ates .
1. The aws f physics are the same fr a servers in unifrm mtin re ative t ne
anther .
2. The speed f ight in a vacuum is the same fr a servers, regard ess f their
re ative mtin r f the mtin f the surce f the ight.
The resu tant thery has many surprising cnsequences. Sme f these are:
u Time di atin: Mving c cks are measured t tick mre s w y than an server's
"statinary" c ck.
u Length cntractin: Ojects are measured t e shrtened in the directin that they
are mving with respect t the server.
u Re ativity f simu taneity: Tw events that are simu taneus t an server Ú may
nt e simu taneus t an server B if B is mving
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