Topics in Theoretical and Experimental Gravitation Physics

The Generation of Gravitational Waves: A Review of Computational Techniques.- Effects of Gravitational Radiation upon Electromagnetic Waves in a Dispersive Medium.- Gravitational Waves and Their Interaction with Electromagnetic Field.- Shock Waves in General Relativity.- Editorial Comments.- The Detection of Gravitational Waves and Quantum Nondisturbtive Measurements.- Onedimensional Analysis and Computer Simulation of a Weber Antenna.- Comments on the Gravitational Radiation Experiments.- Estimated Sensitivity of the Low Temperature Gravitational Wave Antenna in Rome.- The L.S.U. Low Temperature Gravity Wave Experiment.- Optimal Detection of Signals through Linear Devices with Thermal Noise Sources and Application to the Munich-Frascati Weber-Type Gravitational Wave Detectors.- Synchrotron Radiation and Astrophysics.- Editorial Comments: Development of Singularities.- On the Behavior of Physical Clocks in the Vicinity of Singularities of a Gravitational Field.- Editorial Comments.- Bimetric Theory of Gravitation.- Speculative Remarks on Physics in General and Relativity in Particular.- Gravitation and Tachyons.- General Relativity and Quantum Theory.- Author Index.