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This Week’s Word Is ‘Relativity.’
This week I have another Laurence King book, from a series called “Words that Changed the World.” Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity is aimed at readers aged around 11 upwards desgined to explain Einstein’s body of work.
What Is Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity?
Now, there’s a question! One this book aims to get to the bottom of. It’s large format (15″ X 11″) slim (62 pages) hardback. Its striking cover is textured and covered with intriguing scientific diagrams and formulae to draw you in. You want to know more from the moment you look at the book. The body of the book uses a mixture of text and illustrations to explain how Einstein’s theories evolved and the thought-experiments that underpinned them.
The book begins with an overview of Einstein and his life, up until he embarked upon on his groundbreaking work. It then explains what was known about gravity, time, space, light, and relativity at that time.
After that, the book digs deeper into Einstein’s work beginning with “Einstein’s Miraculous Year” and the four papers that he sent to his friend Conrad Habicht in 1905. Namely, light quanta, molecule size, Brownian motion, and the electrodynamics of moving bodies. Next, things…
