Gravitation and inertia /
Einstein's standard and battle-tested geometric theory of gravity - spacetime tells mass how to move and mass tells spacetime how to curve - is expounded in this book by Ignazio Ciufolini and John Wheeler. They give special attention to the theory's observational checks and to two of its c...
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©1995.
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| Series: | Princeton series in physics.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- A first tour
- Einstein geometrodynamics
- Tests of Einstein geometrodynamics
- Cosmology, standard models, and homogeneous rotating models
- The initial-value problem in Einstein geometrodynamics
- The gravitomagnetic field and its measurement
- Some highlights of the past and a summary of geometrodynamics and inertia.
