Re: [Phys-l] Mach - was (teaching energy)

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

Too bad I didn't pick up the mail before posting.

p. 863 ff.

bc

p.s. for those mystified, "Einstein and the Existence of Atoms",  (AJP) 
in which Perrin is referred.

p.p.s. he also may be the first to use oleic to measure the size of that 
molecule, an experiment described in my HS text (ca. 1953) -- his speech 
refers to it and other methods that "prove" the discontinuous nature of 
matter.  It's very long!



Rauber, Joel wrote:

> I'm not familiar with the Perrin reference.  Einstein's Brownian Motion
> paper of 1905 is often cited as the last nail in the coffin of the
> non-believers in the atomic hypothesis.
>
> I'm embarrassed to say I haven't heard of Perrin, so if there are others
> like me,
>
> http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1926/perrin-bio.htm
> l
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> ________________________ 
> Joel Rauber 
> Department of Physics - SDSU 
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> Joel.Rauber@sdstate.edu 
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> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu 
> | [mailto:phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu] On Behalf 
> | Of Bernard Cleyet
> | Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 4:57 PM
> | To: Forum for Physics Educators
> | Subject: Re: [Phys-l] teaching energy
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> |  "... a man who could go to his grave in 1916 refusing to 
> | believe in the atomic hypothesis, ..."
> | 
> | 
> | 
> | Didn't Perrin confirm Einstein's 1905 speculation on this 
> | matter before 1916?
> | 
> | bc
> | 
> | 
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