Feynman Lectures on Gravitation (Paperback, Anchor Books an)

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.

General

Imprint:	WestviewPress
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Frontiers in Physics
Release date:	June 2002
First published:	June 2002
Authors:	Richard Feynman
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	280
Edition:	Anchor Books an
ISBN-13:	978-0-8133-4038-8
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Classical mechanics > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Quantum physics (quantum mechanics) > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8133-4038-1
Barcode:	9780813340388

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