Feynman Lectures On Gravitation
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Frontiers in Physics
ISBN-10
0813340381
ISBN-13
9780813340388
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint
Westview Press Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 20th, 2002
Print length
280 Pages
Weight
410 grams
Dimensions
15.20 x 22.80 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
Classical mechanicsQuantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory)
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Based on the in-class lectures of Richard Feynman, this book covers a wide range of topics in physics and provides a window to the thoughts of a brilliant Nobel laureate.
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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