This relation can be tested by means of experiments because the velocity
of the electron can be directly measured by means of rapidly oscillating
electric and magnetic fields.
2. From the value which is deduced for the kinetic energy of the
electron, it follows that when the electron falls through a potential
difference of P, the velocity _v_ which is acquired is given by the
following relation:—
$$ P = \int Xdx = \frac{m}{e}c^2 (\frac{1}{\sqrt{1 - \frac{v^2}{c^2}}} -
1) $$
3. We calculate the radius of curvature R of the path, where the only
deflecting force is a magnetic force N acting perpendicular to the
velocity of projection. From the second of equations A) we obtain:
$$ - \frac{d^2y}{dt^2} = \frac{v^2}{R} = \frac{e}{m} \frac{v}{c} N
\sqrt{1 - \frac{v^2}{c^2}} $$
or
_mv_β_c_
R = ----------
_e_N
These three relations are complete expressions for the law of motion of
the electron according to the above theory.
Footnote 6:
_Vide_ Note 9.
Footnote 7:
_Vide_ Note 9.
Footnote 8:
_Vide_ Note 12.
ALBRECHT EINSTEIN
[_A short biographical note._]
The name of Prof. Albrecht Einstein has now spread far beyond the narrow
pale of scientific investigators owing to the brilliant confirmation of
his predicted deflection of light-rays by the gravitational field of the
sun during the total solar eclipse of May 29, 1919. But to the serious
student of science, he has been known from the beginning of the current
century, and many dark problems in physics has been illuminated with the
lustre of his genius, before, owing to the latest sensation just
mentioned, he flashes out before public imagination as a scientific star
of the first magnitude.
Einstein is a Swiss-German of Jewish extraction, and began his
scientific career as a privat-dozent in the Swiss University of Zürich
about the year 1902. Later on, he migrated to the German University of
Prague in Bohemia as ausser-ordentliche (or associate) Professor. In
1914, through the exertions of Prof. M. Planck of the Berlin University,
he was appointed a paid member of the Royal (now National) Prussian
Academy of Sciences, on a salary of 18,000 marks per year. In this post,
he has only to do and guide research work. Another distinguished
occupant of the same post was Van’t Hoff, the eminent physical chemist.
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