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Gravitation and inertia /

Einstein's standard and battle-tested geometric theory of gravity - spacetime tells mass how to move and mass tells spacetime how to curve - is expounded in this book by Ignazio Ciufolini and John Wheeler. They give special attention to the theory's observational checks and to two of its c...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ciufolini, Ignazio, 1951-
Other Authors: Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1995.
Series:Princeton series in physics.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A first tour
  • Einstein geometrodynamics
  • Tests of Einstein geometrodynamics
  • Cosmology, standard models, and homogeneous rotating models
  • The initial-value problem in Einstein geometrodynamics
  • The gravitomagnetic field and its measurement
  • Some highlights of the past and a summary of geometrodynamics and inertia.