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Gravity from the ground up /
"This book invites the reader to understand our Universe, not just marvel at it. From the clock-like motions of the planets to the catastrophic collapse of a star into a black hole, gravity controls the Universe. Gravity is central to modern physics: it helps to answer the deepest questions abo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Gravity on Earth: the inescapable force
- And then came Newton: gravity takes center stage
- Satellites: what goes up doesn't always come down
- The Solar System: a triumph for Newtonian gravity
- Tides and tidal forces: the real signature of gravity
- Interplanetary travel: the cosmic roller-coaster
- Atmospheres: keeping planets covered
- Gravity in the Sun: keeping the heat on
- Reaching for the stars: the emptiness of outer space
- The colors of stars: why they are black (bodies)
- Stars at work: factories for the Universe
- Birth to death: the life cycle of the stars
- Binary stars: tidal forces on a huge scale
- Galaxies: atoms in the Universe
- Physics near the speed of light: Einstein stands on Galileo's shoulders.
- Relating to Einstein: logic and experiment in relativity
- Spacetime geometry: finding out what is not relative
- Einstein's gravity: the curvature of spacetime in the Solar System
- Einstein's recipe: fashioning the geometry of gravity
- Neutron stars: laboratories of strong gravity
- Black holes: gravity's one-way street
- Gravitational waves: gravity speaks
- Gravitational lenses: bringing the Universe into focus
- Cosmology: the study of everything
- Big Bang: the seed from which we grew
- Einstein's Universe: the geometry of cosmology
- Ask the Universe: cosmic questions at the frontiers of gravity
- Appendix A. Useful constants: values used in this book
- Appendix B. Background: what you need to know before you start.