Feynman Lectures On Gravitation Paperback / softback
by Richard Feynman
Part of the Frontiers in Physics series
Paperback / softback
Description
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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:280 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication Date:20/06/2002
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- ISBN:9780813340388
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:280 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication Date:20/06/2002
- Category:
- ISBN:9780813340388
