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

["Rauber, Joel" <Joel.Rauber@SDSTATE.EDU>]

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
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Joel Rauber 
Department of Physics - SDSU 

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| -----Original Message-----
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| [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, ..."
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| Didn't Perrin confirm Einstein's 1905 speculation on this 
| matter before 1916?
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| bc
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