Einstein's Physics:
- Atoms, Quanta, and Relativity - Derived, Explained, & Appraised (2013)
Back cover View Preface with 21 Einstein Questions & TOC [Key to 21Q]
Sample chapters: View Ch 2 The Brownian Motion View Ch 6 Waves, Particles, and Quantum Jumps View Ch 7 Bose-Einstein
View Ch 8 Local Reality and the Einstein-Bohr Debate
Walking in Einstein’s Steps: View Ch 16 Gauge Theories View Ch 17 The Kaluza-Klein Unification Theory and Extra Dimensions
For relativity & cosmology chapters, see similar material in my other books
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Journal Reviews:
Contemporary Physics by Tom Lancaster (Durham, 7/2013)
Zentralblatt MATH by Hans-Jurgen Schmidt (Potsdam, 8/2013)
Some of my favorite online reviews and comments are: 1 Amazon Rev (7/6/2023), 2 Weylmann.com (10/22/2015)
Corrections: Since its publication in April 2013, I have found that I can clarify a few points by the insertion of additional side notes, as well as correct some inevitable typos. These corrections are contained in this PDF document posted on 6/11/2013.
The link to Einstein’s papers:
Just about all the Einstein papers referenced in this book can, since December 2014, be freely accessed online at Digital Einstein
Relativity Gravitation and Cosmology — A Basic Introduction
(Oxford Master Series in Physics) 1st edition (2005), 2nd edition (2010)
Sample chapters: View Ch 1 Introduction and Overview View Ch 3 The Geometric Formulation of SR View Ch 6 GR as a Geometric Theory of Gravity
View Ch 9 The Homogeneous and Isotropic Universe View Ch 11 Inflation and the Accelerating Universe View Ch 15 Gravitational Waves
View App B Solutions to Selected Problems
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Book Reviews:
of 1st edition: American Journal of Physics (2005 October) by Andrew Hamilton
of 2nd edition: General Relativity and Gravitation (2011) 43, 359-360 by Brien Nolan
Some of my favorite online reviews and comments are: 1. 2021 Amazon rev., 2. 2014 Amazon rev., 3. Due to this book, my name came up in a play
There were a fair number of (mostly editorial) errors in the original printings. They were corrected in the new paperback editions since 2016. If you have one of those old versions and are interested in seeing where the corrections have been made, please write to the author at tapeicheng@gmail.com.
A College Course on Relativity and Cosmology (2015)
This book is the undergraduate edition of my previous GR book, Relativity, Gravitation, and Cosmology, 2nd edition (2010). There is also a free online course based on this book; see the next section on this site.
Sample chapters: View Ch 4 Equivalence of Gravity and Inertia View Ch5 Einstein’s Th of Gravitation GR View Ch6 Einstein Eqn and its Spherical Solution
View Ch7 Black Holes View Ch9 Big Bang Thermal Relics View Ch11 Tensor Formalism for GR
Solutions Manual: For instructors, click here.
Students who follow the online course can find solutions posted at the end of each section.
Here is the one-page errata of the book
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Online course based on this book: See the Courses & Lectures section of this site
Some of my favorite online reviews and comments are 1. Amazon 2023
Gauge Theory of Elementary Particle Physics (1984)
The Russian translation was published by Mir (Moscow) in 1987.
The Chinese issue was published by Science Press (Beijing) in 2008.
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Reviews:
David Gross in Physics Today 38 (12), 78 (1985).
Corrections:
Corrections to the printings before the 1997 printings of the book: p.1 p.2 p.3 p.4
Gauge Theory of Elementary Particle Physics: Problems and Solutions (2000)
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Corrections to the Problems and Solutions book:
(Thanks to Xuan Yem Pham, 00-5-10)
p.47: eqns (2.65) and (2.66), a factor of i is missing on the right-hand-side of the equation in the last line.
p.52: in the equation for παβ(q)€immediately following eqn (2.98), a Gamma function Γ(ε/2) is missing on the right-hand-side.
p.52: in the equation for π(q)€immediately following eqn (2.101), the factor of 1/3 on the right-hand-side should in fact be 1/6.
p.64: In eqn (3.12), all Zs, except for the two on the last line should be replaced by Z-1s.
(Thanks to Arpad Lukacs, 13-10-4)
p.82: eqns (4.25) and (4.30), a factor of i is missing in front of (r⋅σ)'s.