ALBERT EINSTEIN
Early Life
He could not speak full sentences
until he was 5
His family was Jewish but he attended
Catholic elementary school
After admitting to school Einstein
came into a zone
He mastered differential and integral
calculus before the age of 15
If he had not become a physicist, he
probably be a musician
ACHEIVEMENTS
o Theory of Light
o The Photoelectric effect
o Mass-Energy Equation
o Brownian Movement
o Special Theory of Relativity
o General Theory of
Relativity
Mass Energy Equation
E=mc2
The formula defines the energy E of a
particle in its rest frame as product of
mass(m) with speed of light squared C2
The equivalence principle implies that
when energy is lost in chemical
reactions, nuclear reactions and other
energy transformations, the system will
lose a corresponding amount of mass.
The energy mass can be released to the
environment as radiant energy.
Einstein was the first to propose the
equivalence of mass and energy and a
general principle and a consequence of
the symmetries of space and time.
Photoelectric Effect
hν = W + E
When light with energy above a certain
threshold hits a metal surface, an
electron that was previously bound to
metal is knocked out. Each particle of
light, called a photon collides with an
electron and uses some of its energy to
dislodge it from the metal.
The stopping potential does not
depend on the intensity of significant
light.
The frequency of light falling light on
the emitter must be greater than a
certain value threshold
Photoelectrons are emitted without
delay
Nobel Prize
For Physics
For his service to the theoretical
physics especially for his
discovery of law of the
photoelectric effect, he received a
nobel prize in 1921.