Exploring Black Holes

Introduction to General Relativity

Edwin F. Taylor, John Archibald Wheeler

352 pages, parution le 09/01/2002

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Résumé

A concise, direct examination of general relativity and black holes, Exploring Black Holes provides tools that motivate tools that motivate readers to become active participants in carrying out their own investigations about curved spacetime near earth and black holes. The authors use calculus and algebra to make general relativity accessible, and use quotes from well-known personalities, including Einstein, to offer further insight. Five chapters introduce basic theory. The book also includes seven projects regarding the analysis of major applications. Discussions provide the background needed to carry out projects. The book's projects guide readers as they fill in steps, compute outcomes and carry out their own investigations. For astronomers, mathematicians and people interested in learning about the relativity of black holes.

Contents

Chapter 1: Speeding (Review of Special Relativity).

Chapter 2: Curving (Spacetime Near a Non-Rotating Black Hole).

Project A: The Global Positioning System.

Chapter 3: Plunging (Diving Toward a Black Hole).

Project B: Inside The Black Hole.

Chapter 4: Orbiting (Zooming Around a Black Hole).

Project C: Advance of The Perihelion of Mercury.

Chapter 5: Seeing (Bending and Orbiting Light).

Project D: Einstein Rings.
Project E: Light Slowed Near Sun.
Project F: The Spinning Black Hole.
Project G: The Friedmann Universe.

Reading in General Relativity

Glossaries of Symbols and Terms

Index

L'auteur - John Archibald Wheeler

John Archibald Wheeler is Joseph Henry Professor of Physics at Princeton University. His Ph.D. (1933) is from the Johns Hopkins University. More about him will be found in Magic Without Magic: John Archibald Wheeler ("A Collection of Essays in Honor of His Sixtieth Birthday"), John R. Klauder, Editor (W. H. Freeman and Company, 1972).

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Addison Wesley
Auteur(s)	Edwin F. Taylor, John Archibald Wheeler
Parution	09/01/2002
Nb. de pages	352
Format	21 x 26
Couverture	Broché
Poids	802g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780201384239
ISBN13	978-0-201-38423-9