Bryce DeWitt's Lectures on Gravitation

Edited by Steven M. Christensen

(Autor)

Steven M. Christensen (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
XII, 288 Seiten
2011 | 2011
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-540-36909-7 (ISBN)
85,59 inkl. MwSt
Written with clarity and authority, and edited by DeWitt's former student Steven Christensen, these timeless lecture notes, containing material not found elsewhere, are a gem to be discovered or re-discovered by anyone interested in gravitational physics.

Bryce DeWitt, a student of Nobel Laureate Julian Schwinger, was himself one of the towering figures in 20th century physics, particularly renowned for his seminal contributions to quantum field theory, numerical relativity and quantum gravity.
In late 1971 DeWitt gave a course on gravitation at Stanford University, leaving almost 400 pages of detailed handwritten notes.
Written with clarity and authority, and edited by his former student Steven Christensen, these timeless lecture notes, containing material or expositions not found in any other textbooks, are a gem to be discovered or re-discovered by anyone seriously interested in the study of gravitational physics.

Review of the Uses of Invariants in Special Relativity.- Accelerated Motion in Special Relativity.- Realization of Continuous Groups.- Riemannian Manifolds.- The Free Particle Geodesics.- Weak Field Approximation. Newton`s Theory.- Ensembles of Particles.- Production of Gravitational Fields by Matter.- Conservation Laws.- Phenomenological Description of a Conservative Continuous Medium.- Solubility of the Einstein and Matter Equations.- Energy, Momentum and Stress in the Gravitational Field.- Measurement of Asymptotic Field.- The Electromagnetic Field.- Gravitational Waves.- Spinning Bodies.- Weak Field Gravitational Wave.- Stationary Spherically (or Rotationally) Symmetric Metric.- Kerr Metric Subcalculations.- Friedmann Cosmology.- Dynamical Equations and Diffeomorphisms.

From the reviews:

"DeWitt's lectures cover interesting and detailed material which is rarely found in other text books. It is a book for the advanced reader." (Norbert Dragon, General Relativity and Gravitation, Vol. 44, 2012)

Erscheint lt. Verlag 23.2.2011
Reihe/Serie Lecture Notes in Physics
Zusatzinfo XII, 288 p.
Verlagsort Berlin
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 940 g
Themenwelt Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Geometrie / Topologie
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Astronomie / Astrophysik
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Theoretische Physik
Schlagworte Bryce DeWitt • General relativity • quantum gravitation
ISBN-10 3-540-36909-0 / 3540369090
ISBN-13 978-3-540-36909-7 / 9783540369097
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