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Feynman Lectures on Gravitation

Door Brian Hatfield

Categorie	Algemeen wetenschap
Boeknummer	#360254-VE45
Titel	Feynman Lectures on Gravitation
Auteur	Hatfield, Brian (editor)
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	Boulder, CO : Westview Press
Jaar van uitgave	2003
ISBN10	0813340381
ISBN13	9780813340388
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, illustrated with numerous equations, graphs and diagrams, 8vo. The Advanced Book Program.
Samenvatting	Based on the in-class lectures of Richard Feynman, this book covers a wide range of topics in physics and provides a window to the thoughts of a brilliant Nobel laureate. The Feynman Lectures on Gravitation are based on notes prepared during a course on gravitational physics that Richard Feynman taught at Caltech during the 1962-63 academic year. For several years prior to these lectures, Feynman thought long and hard about the fundamental problems in gravitational physics, yet he published very little. These lectures represent a useful record of his viewpoints and some of his insights into gravity and its application to cosmology, superstars, wormholes, and gravitational waves at that particular time. The lectures also contain a number of fascinating digressions and asides on the foundat... (Lees verder)ions of physics and other issues. Characteristically, Feynman took an untraditional non-geometric approach to gravitation and general relativity based on the underlying quantum aspects of gravity. Hence, these lectures contain a unique pedagogical account of the development of Einstein's general theory of relativity as the inevitable result of the demand for a self-consistent theory of a massless spin-2 field (the graviton) coupled to the energy-momentum tensor of matter. This approach also demonstrates the intimate and fundamental connection between gauge invariance and the principle of equivalence.
Pagina's	232
Conditie	Goed — Several underlinings in red ballpoint pen through text, name and date in ballpoint pen on first endpaper.
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