Cheng Ta-Pei. Einstein’s Physics: Atoms, Quanta, and Relativity Derived, Explained, and Appraised

Oxford University Press, 2013. — 371 p. — ISBN: 978–0–19–966991–2.Many regard Albert Einstein as the greatest physicist since Newton. What exactly did he do that is so important in physics? Einstein's Physics provides an introduction to his physics at a level accessible to an undergraduate physics student. All equations are worked out in detail from the beginning.
Einstein's doctoral thesis and his Brownian motion paper were decisive contributions to our understanding of matter as composed of molecules and atoms. Einstein was one of the founding fathers of quantum theory: his photon proposal through the investigation of blackbody radiation, his quantum theory of photoelectric effect and specific heat, his calculation of radiation fluctuation giving the first statement of wave-particle duality, his introduction of probability in the description of quantum radiative transitions, and finally the quantum statistics and Bose-Einstein condensation. Einstein's special theory of relativity gave us the famous E=mc2 relation and the new kinematics leading to the idea of the 4-dimensional spacetime as the arena in which physical events take place. Einstein's geometric theory of gravity, general relativity, extends Newton's theory to time-dependent and strong gravitational fields. It laid the ground work for the study of black holes and cosmology.
This is a physics book with material presented in the historical context. It does not stop at Einstein's discovery, but carries the discussion onto some of the later advances: Bell's theorem, quantum field theory, gauge theories and Kaluza-Klein unification in a spacetimeAtomic nature of matter
Molecular size from classical fluids
The Brownian motion
Quantum theory
Blackbody radiation: From Kirchhoff to Planck
Einstein’s proposal of light quanta
Quantum theory of specific heat
Waves, particles, and quantum jumps
Bose–Einstein statistics and condensation
Local reality and the Einstein–Bohr debate
Special relativity
Prelude to special relativity
The new kinematics and E = mc2
Geometric formulation of relativity
General relativity
Towards a general theory of relativity
Curved spacetime as a gravitational field
The Einstein field equation
Cosmology
Walking in Einstein’s Steps
Internal symmetry and gauge interactions
The Kaluza–Klein theory and extra dimensions
Appendices
Mathematics supplements
Einstein’s papers
Answers to the 21 Einstein questions
Glossary of symbols and acronyms