03111nam 2200553Ia 450 991014097320332120200520144314.09783540369110354036911210.1007/978-3-540-36911-0(CKB)2670000000096144(SSID)ssj0000506053(PQKBManifestationID)11313191(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000506053(PQKBWorkID)10513601(PQKB)10991998(DE-He213)978-3-540-36911-0(MiAaPQ)EBC3066820(PPN)153859881(EXLCZ)99267000000009614420101216d2011 uy 0engurnn|008mamaatxtccrBryce DeWitt's Lectures on gravitation /edited by Steven M. Christensen1st ed. 2011.Heidelberg ;New York Springerc20111 online resource (XII, 288 p. 10 illus.) Lecture notes in physics,0075-8450 ;v. 826Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9783540369097 3540369090 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.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.Lecture notes in physics ;826.GravitationGravitation.521/.1DeWitt Bryce S(Bryce Seligman),1923-2004.46279Christensen Steven M52680MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910140973203321Bryce DeWitt's Lectures on gravitation4190990UNINA