Gravitation
Charles W Misner, Kip S Thorne, John Archibald Wheeler
This landmark text offers a rigorous full-year graduate level course on gravitation physics, teaching students to:â Grasp the laws of physics in flat spacetimeâ Predict orders of magnitudeâ Calculate using the principal tools of modern geometryâ Predict all levels of precisionâ Understand Einstein's geometric framework for physicsâ Explore applications, including pulsars and neutron stars, cosmology, the Schwarzschild geometry and gravitational collapse, and gravitational wavesâ Probe experimental tests of Einstein's theoryâ Tackle advanced topics such as superspace and quantum geometrodynamics The book offers a unique, alternating two-track pathway through the subject:â In many chapters, material focusing on basic physical ideas is designated asTrack 1. These sections together make an appropriate one-term advanced/graduate level course (mathematical prerequisites: vector analysis and simple partial-differential equations). The book is printed to make it easy for readers to identify these sections.â The remaining Track 2 material provides a wealth of advanced topics instructors can draw from to flesh out a two-term course, with Track 1 sections serving as prerequisites.
類別:
年:
1973
出版商:
San Francisco, W.H. Freeman
語言:
english
頁數:
1304
ISBN 10:
0716703440
ISBN 13:
9780716703440
文件:
PDF, 58.77 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1973
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