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Gravitation is a widely adopted textbook on Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, written by Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, and John Archibald Wheeler. It was originally published by W. H. Freeman and Company in 1973 and reprinted by Princeton University Press in 2017.
- Non-fiction
- 1973, 2017
- xxvi, 1279
Oct 24, 2017 · by Charles W. Misner (Author, Introduction), Kip S. Thorne (Author, Introduction), John Archibald Wheeler (Author), 4.8 809 ratings. See all formats and editions. First published in 1973, Gravitation is a landmark graduate-level textbook that presents Einstein’s general theory of relativity and offers a rigorous, full-year course on the ...
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- John Archibald Wheeler
- Princeton University Press
- SPACETIME PHYSICS 1. Geometrodynamics in Brief The Parable of the Apple Spacetime With and Without Coordinates 3. Weightlessness 4. Local Lorentz Geometry, With and Without Coordinates.
- PHYSICS IN FLAT SPACETIME 2. Foundations of Special Relativity Overview Geometric Objects 3. Vectors 4. The Metric Tensor 5. Differential Forms 6. Gradients and Directional Derivatives.
- THE MATHEMATICS OF CURVED SPACETIME 8. Differential Geometry: An Overview An Overview of Part III Track 1 Versus Track 2: Difference in Outlook and Power.
- EINSTEIN’S GEOMETRIC THEORY OF GRAVITY. 16. Equivalence Principle and Measurement of the “Gravitational Field” Overview The Laws of Physics in Curved Spacetime.
Kip Stephen Thorne (born June 1, 1940) is an American theoretical physicist known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics. Along with Rainer Weiss and Barry C. Barish, he was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.
Oct 3, 2017 · Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, John Archibald Wheeler. Princeton University Press, Oct 3, 2017 - Science - 1336 pages. First published in 1973, Gravitation is a landmark graduate-level...
Oct 24, 2017 · Bibliographic information. First published in 1973, Gravitation is a landmark graduate-level textbook that presents Einstein’s general theory of relativity and offers a rigorous, full-year course...
Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, John Archibald Wheeler. Macmillan, Sep 15, 1973 - Science - 1279 pages. This landmark text offers a rigorous full-year graduate level course on gravitation...
