Albert Einstein
Tyler Stewart
Physics
Assignment: Final Paper
July 1, 2013
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879 in Wurttemberg, Germany. He grew up into a secular, middle class Jewish family. He later attended elementary at the Luitpold Gymnasium in Munich. There he excelled in his classes and was able to separate himself from his fellow peers. He enjoyed classical music and was even able to play the violin and piano. Albert was later tutored by a Polish medical student named Max Talmud. He would come on Thursday evenings to introduce Albert to higher mathematics and philosophy. He later wrote his first scientific paper based on a book that Max read to Albert. In the book it talked about riding alongside electricity in a telephone wire. This book lead Einstein to wonder what a light beam would look like. He knew that light moved but he figured that is light were a wave then it would appear stationary. This contradiction fueled him to write “The Investigation of the State of Aether in Magnetic Fields,” at age 16.His paper talked about the question of the relative speed of the stationary observer and the observer moving with the light and what he focused on for the following 10 years. His family later moved to Milan, Italy because of financial problems. He was left at a boarding house so he would be able to finish his studies but soon fled to join his family. After arriving, he attended a special high school in Aarau, Switzerland. He attended this special school so he would be able to attend the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich, Switzerland. To be able to attend he had to finish formal schooling and to do that he went to Aarau. He took an entrance exam at Zurich and got exceptional marks in mathematics and physics but failed the rest. While at Zurich he met a Marie and with whom he fell in love with. Marie was the daughter of the family with whom he boarded with while attending The Swiss Federal Polytechnic School. After graduating from the
Physics
Assignment: Final Paper
July 1, 2013
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879 in Wurttemberg, Germany. He grew up into a secular, middle class Jewish family. He later attended elementary at the Luitpold Gymnasium in Munich. There he excelled in his classes and was able to separate himself from his fellow peers. He enjoyed classical music and was even able to play the violin and piano. Albert was later tutored by a Polish medical student named Max Talmud. He would come on Thursday evenings to introduce Albert to higher mathematics and philosophy. He later wrote his first scientific paper based on a book that Max read to Albert. In the book it talked about riding alongside electricity in a telephone wire. This book lead Einstein to wonder what a light beam would look like. He knew that light moved but he figured that is light were a wave then it would appear stationary. This contradiction fueled him to write “The Investigation of the State of Aether in Magnetic Fields,” at age 16.His paper talked about the question of the relative speed of the stationary observer and the observer moving with the light and what he focused on for the following 10 years. His family later moved to Milan, Italy because of financial problems. He was left at a boarding house so he would be able to finish his studies but soon fled to join his family. After arriving, he attended a special high school in Aarau, Switzerland. He attended this special school so he would be able to attend the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich, Switzerland. To be able to attend he had to finish formal schooling and to do that he went to Aarau. He took an entrance exam at Zurich and got exceptional marks in mathematics and physics but failed the rest. While at Zurich he met a Marie and with whom he fell in love with. Marie was the daughter of the family with whom he boarded with while attending The Swiss Federal Polytechnic School. After graduating from the