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Gravitation and relativity /
Gravitation and Relativity generalizes Isaac Newton's theory of gravitation using the elementary tools of Albert Einstein's special relativity. Topics covered include gravitational waves, martian electrodynamics, relativistic gravitational fields and gravitational forces, the distortion of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Pergamon Press,
1976.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | International series in natural philosophy ;
v. 86. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Gravitation and Relativity; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; PREFACE; CHAPTER 1. SPECIAL RELATIVITY AND ACCELERATIONS; 1.1 Special relativity in brief; 1.2 Special relativity and accelerations; 1.3 Acceleration and gravity; 1.4 Measurements of the gravitational frequency shift; 1.5 The gravitational deflection of light; 1.6 An apparent paradox; References; CHAPTER 2. THE EOTVOS-DICKE EXPERIMENTS; 2.1 Gravitational and inertial mass; 2.2 The E�o'tv�os-Dicke experiments; 2.3 Implications of the null result of E�otv�os-Dicke experiments; References; CHAPTER 3. MARTIAN ELECTRODYNAMICS
- 3.1 Fields3.2 Forces; 3.3 The Lagrangian formalism: for experts; References; CHAPTER 4. RELATIVISTIC GRAVITATIONAL FIELDS; 4.1 The gravitational Poisson equation; 4.2 The properties of the source of gravitational fields; 4.3 Possible forms of relativistic gravitational fields; 4.4 Non-linearity of the field equations; References; CHAPTER 5. RELATIVISTIC GRAVITATIONAL FORCES; 5.1 The velocity of light; 5.2 Radar ranging in the solar system; 5.3 Further remarks on the variable velocity of light; 5.4 The force lavs and equations of motion; 5.5 The effects of local forces
- 5.6 Gravitational deflection and gravitational redshiftReferences; CHAPTER 6. THE DISTORTION OF REFERENCE FRAMES; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Atoms in gravitational fields: the change of scale; 6.3 The weight of an atom; 6.4 Covariant equations of motion; 6.5 The Lagrangian formalism: again for experts; References; CHAPTER 7. THE PRECESSION OF THE PERIHELION OF MERCURY; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Perihelion advance in Newtonian mechanics; 7.3 The relativistic theory and the need for nonlinear terms; 7.4 Strong equivalence and the nonlinear terms; 7.5 Calculation of the advance of perihelion
- 7.6 The precession of the perihelion of Mercury7.7 The oblateness of the Sun; References; CHAPTER 8. GRAVITATIONAL WAVES; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Transverse nature of the waves; 8.3 Physical effects of gravitational waves; 8.4 Polarisation properties of gravitational waves; 8.5 Detection of gravitational waves; 8.6 Generation of gravitational waves; 8.7 Attempts to detect gravitational waves; References; CHAPTER 9. GRAVITATION AND THE GEOMETRY OF SPACETIME; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 The metric tensor and equations of motion in free fall; 9.3 Concerning the field equations
- 9.4 The metric tensor in some simple situations9.5 An example of an inertial field; 9.6 The external spherically symmetric gravitational field; 9.7 The gravitational redshift; 9.8 Deflection of light by the Sun; 9.9 Radar echo delay; 9.10 The precession of planetary perihelia; References; CHAPTER 10. BLACK HOLES; 10.1 Strong gravitational fields; 10.2 The propagation of light in strong fields; 10.3 Particle motion in the field of a black hole; 10.4 The search for black holes; 10.5 The universe; References; INDEX