Feynman Lectures On Gravitation (Frontiers in Physics S)

Brian Hatfield; David Pines; Fernando Morinigo; Richard Feynman; William Wagner

ISBN 10: 0813340381 / ISBN 13: 9780813340388

Verlag: Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 2003

Beschreibung

9" tall trade softcover. A little bumping to top edge, front spine area, otherwise very minimal shlef wear to cover. Pages are tight; clean/unmarked. 232 pages. Last copyright stated as 2003. Number line = 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3. Edited by Brian Hatfield. With a Foreword by John Preskill & Kip S. Thorne. Close to As New condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1704018

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Feynman Lectures On Gravitation (Frontiers in Physics S)
• Verlag: Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0813340381
• ISBN-13: 9780813340388
• Einband: Trade Paperback
• Zustand: As New
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket

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Inhaltsangabe

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 foundations 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.

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Richard Feynman