Feynman Lectures On Gravitation
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ISBN : 9780201627343
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Feynman Lectures on Gravitation
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 and 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 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.
Specification of Feynman Lectures on Gravitation
GENERAL | |
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Author | Richard P. Feynman |
Binding | Hardcover |
Language | English |
Edition | 1st |
ISBN-10 | 0201627345 |
ISBN-13 | 9780201627343 |
Publisher | Addison-Wesley |
Publication Year | 1995 |
DIMENSIONS | |
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Height | 6.5 inch. |
Length | 0.75 inch. |
Width | 9.75 inch. |
Weight | 1.15 pounds. |
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