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FEYNMAN LECTURES ON GRAVITATION
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| By: |
Richard P. Feynman, Fernando B. Morinigo, William Wagner |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0813340381 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780813340388 |
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| Publisher: |
INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US |
| Pub. date: |
30 May, 2002 |
| Pages: |
272 |
| Description: |
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. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Westview Press Inc |
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