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  title info:
    title: Gravity
    sub title: an introduction to Einstein's general relativity
  name:
    name part: Hartle, J. B. (James B.)
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    place:
      place term: San Francisco
    publisher: Addison-Wesley
    date issued: ©2003
    date issued: 2003
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxii, 582 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  abstract: Providing relevant solutions of the Einstein equation, this text introduces field equations of general relativity & their supporting mathematics. Emphasis is on the connection between observation & theory and the phenomena of gravitational physics.
  table of contents: Part I. Space and Time in Newtonian Physics and Special Relativity -- 1. Gravitational Physics -- 2. Geometry as Physics -- 2.1. Gravity Is Geometry -- 2.2. Experiments in Geometry -- 2.3. Different Geometries -- 2.4. Specifying Geometry -- 2.5. Coordinates and Line Element -- 2.6. Coordinates and Invariance -- 3. Space, Time, and Gravity in Newtonian Physics -- 3.1. Inertial Frames -- 3.2. The Principle of Relativity -- 3.3. Newtonian Gravity -- 3.4. Gravitational and Inertial Mass -- 3.5. Variational Principle for Newtonian Mechanics -- 4. Principles of Special Relativity -- 4.1. The Addition of Velocities and the Michelson-Morley Experiment -- 4.2. Einstein's Resolution and Its Consequences -- 4.3. Spacetime -- 4.4. Time Dilation and the Twin Paradox -- 4.5. Lorentz Boosts -- 4.6. Units -- 5. Special Relativistic Mechanics -- 5.1. Four-Vectors -- 5.2. Special Relativistic Kinematics -- 5.3. Special Relativistic Dynamics -- 5.4. Variational Principle for Free Particle Motion -- 5.5. Light Rays -- 5.6. Observers and Observations -- Part II. The Curved Spacetimes of General Relativity -- 6. Gravity as Geometry -- 6.1. Testing the Equality of Gravitational and Inertial Mass -- 6.2. The Equivalence Principle -- 6.3. Clocks in a Gravitational Field -- 6.4. The Global Positioning System -- 6.5. Spacetime Is Curved -- 6.6. Newtonian Gravity in Spacetime Terms -- 7. The Description of Curved Spacetime -- 7.1. Coordinates -- 7.2. Metric -- 7.3. The Summation Convention -- 7.4. Local Inertial Frames -- 7.5. Light Cones and World Lines -- 7.6. Length, Area, Volume, and Four-Volume for Diagonal Metrics -- 7.7. Embedding Diagrams and Wormholes -- 7.8. Vectors in Curved Spacetime -- 7.9. Three-Dimensional Surfaces in Four-Dimensional Spacetime -- 8. Geodesics -- 8.1. The Geodesic Equation -- 8.2. Solving the Geodesic Equation -- Symmetries and Conservation Laws -- 8.3. Null Geodesics -- 8.4. Local Inertial Frames and Freely Falling Frames -- 9. The Geometry Outside a Spherical …
  note: James B. Hartle.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 563-567) and index.
  subject:
    topic: General relativity (Physics)
  subject:
    topic: Relativité générale (Physique)
  subject:
    topic: General relativity (Physics)
  subject:
    topic: Relatividade (física)
  subject:
    topic: RELATIVITY
  subject:
    topic: FIELD THEORY (PHYSICS)
  subject:
    topic: GRAVITATION
  subject:
    topic: NEWTON THEORY
  classification: QC173.6 .H38 2003
  classification: 530.11
  classification: 33.21
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Gravity
    name:
      name part: Hartle, J.B. (James B.).
    origin info:
      publisher: San Francisco : Addison-Wesley, ©2003
    identifier: (OCoLC)752875662
  identifier: 0805386629
  identifier: 9780805386622
  identifier: 2002151118
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 021002
    record change date: 20190823105505.0
    record identifier: in00001816739
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng