INDEX
Italic
page
numbers indicate references
to
front
matter,
or
to
editorial
notes. Page
numbers followed
by a
lowercase "n" indicate footnotes
to
Einstein documents.
References
are
collected under the
appropriate English heading.
"Albert Einstein"
is
abbreviated
to
"AE"
in
subentries.
Correspondence
cited
in
editorial material
is
listed
alphabetically
by
correspondent/recipient following
the words
"correspondence
with"
(referring to
a
group
of letters
exchanged
with AE)
and/or "letter from/to"
(referring
to specific
letters). A
separate
index of citations follows the main index.
Aberration, 53, 104n, 422, 545
Abraham,
Max
(1875-1922),
122-128,
141,
143,
505, 621n;
controversy
with
AE
on
gravitation,
122-128,
130,
179n,
181-
186,
187n, 190, 488,
501n,
615,
621n,
622n;
correspondence
with
AE, 125, 126;
AE's
response to
comments by,
181-186,
190,
621n;
special relativity,
work
by,
84,
92,
107n;
theory
of
gravitation
of,
122,
124, 126, 130,
141, 143, 186,
187n,
299,
488, 501n, 505,
506, 509,
615;
quoted
by
AE, 183,
186
Acceleration: absolute
and
relative, 194-195,
484, 547, 585,
618, 620;
and
gravitation:
see
Gravitation;
proper: 131, 147,
uni-
form,
194; space-time
and
field
of,
131-
134;
transformation:
see
Transformation
Action:
principle
of
least,
563
(see
also Vari-
ational
principle);
and reaction,
124,
156-
161,
567,
610
Addition of
velocities, law
of, 33,
48-50, 53
Adiabatic invariants, 272
Akademische
Verlagsgesellschaft (publish-
ing house),
3
Angular
momentum, 454;
conservation
of,
350, 355,
374-376
Aphelion,
351,
354
Area
law, 350, 374,
387n, 395n, 439n, 441n,
471n
Area
velocity,
350, 353, 355,
374,
403n
Arrhenius,
Svante
(1859-1927), 561
Avogadro's
number,
111,
562, 564n
Beltrami, Eugenio (1835-1900),
343n
Beltrami's first
and
second
operators, gener-
alized,
196,
205n, 215n, 217n, 220n, 330
Besso,
Michele
(1873-1955), 110,
344-346,
356-359, 618;
AE and
Besso's
manuscript
on
motion of
perihelion
of
Mercury,
344-
359, 360-472
(see
also
Perihelion);
letter
from
AE, 110, 111, 112, 124, 125, 127,
145n, 194, 294, 297, 298,
301,
358,
564n,
570n, 621n;
letter
to AE,
358
Beta
rays,
545,
554, 613. See
also Cathode
rays
Biot-Savart
law,
14
Black
body
radiation.
See
Radiation
Boltzmann,
Ludwig (1844-1906),
529-532,
534n, 562;
contributions
to
kinetic
gas
theory of,
529-532,
534n
Boltzmann's
constant, 562
Boltzmann
principle, 532,
534n, 562
Born, Max (1882-1970), 509,
511n
Bragg,
William
Henry
(1862-1942),
lecture
on X-ray
diffraction, 554n
Broglie,
Maurice
de (1875-1960), 559n
Brownian motion,
185,
529-531
Carnot
cycle, 155, 555,
555n, 556
Cathode
rays,
motion of
in
electromagnetic
field,
15, 102n,
545, 562, 613
Cauchy's
theorem,
379n
Charge:
definition of
electrical,
9, 54;
density
of
electrical,
10;
field of
point charge, 152
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