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Feynman Lectures On Gravitation (Frontiers in Physics S)

 
Feynman Lectures On Gravitation (Frontiers in Physics S)

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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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EAN/ISBN:
9780813340388
Edition:
Anchor Books an.
Medium:
Paperback
Number of pages:
282
Publication date:
2002-06-20
Publisher:
Westview Press
Languages:
english
Manufacturer:
Unknown
EAN/ISBN:
9780813340388
Edition:
Anchor Books an.
Medium:
Paperback
Number of pages:
282
Publication date:
2002-06-20
Publisher:
Westview Press
Languages:
english
Manufacturer:
Unknown

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