Gravitation

Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, John Archibald Wheeler - Collection Science - Physics

1280 pages, parution le 01/01/1973

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"Einstein's description of gravitation as curvature of spacetime led directly to that greatest of all predictions of his theory, that the universe itself is dynamic. Physics still has far to go to come to terms with this amazing fact and what it means for man and his relation with the universe."
John Archibald Wheeler

Put as simply as possible, this is a book on Einstein's theory of gravity (general relativity). It is the first textbook on the subject that uses throughout the modern formalism and notation of differential geometry, and it is the first book to document in full the revolutionary techniques developed during the past decade to test the theory of general relativity. (Such tests include the use of atomic clocks, long baseline radio interferometry, interplanetary radar, lunar laser ranging, and interplanetary spacecraft.) Among the topics treated in depth are relativistic stars and star clusters and their possible roles in pulsars and quasars, recent developments in cosmology, gravitational collapse and black holes, and the generation, propagation, and detection of gravitational waves.

All three authors are uniquely qualified to have written this authoritative work: during the past decade, they and their research groups have been responsible for approximately half of the theoretical developments in the areas of concentration mentioned. Here is a book that is without competition and without peer-a book that belongs on the shelves and in the libraries of all who are seriously interested in modern science.

L'auteur - Charles W. Misner

Charles W. Misner is Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland. His Ph.D. (1957) is from Princeton. He has taught at Princeton and Maryland and has been a visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology, Cambridge University, and Oxford University.

L'auteur - Kip S. Thorne

Kip S. Thorne is Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology and Adjunct Professor of Physics at the University of Utah. He has also taught at the University of Chicago. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1965.

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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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Boxes
Figures
Acknowledgements
Spacetime Physics
Physics in Flat Spacetime
The mathematics of Curved Spacetime
Einstein's Geometric Theory of Gravity
Relativistic Stars
The Universe
Gravitational Collapse and Black Holes
Gravitational Waves
Experimental Tests of General Relativity
Frontiers
Bibliography and Index of Names
Subject Index

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	W.H. Freeman and Company
Auteur(s)	Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, John Archibald Wheeler
Collection	Science - Physics
Parution	01/01/1973
Nb. de pages	1280
Format	20 x 25,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	2650g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780716703440
ISBN13	978-0-7167-0344-0