This landmark text offers a rigorous full-year graduate level course on gravitation physics, teaching students to:
• Grasp the laws of physics in flat spacetime
• Predict orders of magnitude
• Calculate using the principal tools of modern geometry
• Predict all levels of precision
• Understand Einstein's geometric framework for physics
• Explore applications, including pulsars and neutron stars, cosmology, the Schwarzschild geometry and gravitational collapse, and gravitational waves
• Probe experimental tests of Einstein's theory
• Tackle advanced topics such as superspace and quantum geometrodynamics
- Autor: John Archibald Wheeler
- Kategoria: astronomia, astrofizyka
- Język: angielski
- ISBN: 9780716703440
- Data wydania: 1973-01-01
- Liczba stron: 1215
- Ocena: 9,0
- Wydawnictwo: brak informacji o wydawnictwie
