Gravity category: 273 books
Teleparallel Gravity
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
Teleparallel Gravity (TG) is an alternative theory for gravitation, which is equivalent to General Relativity (GR). However, it is conceptually different. For example in GR geometry replaces the concept of force, and the trajectories are determined by geodesics. TG attributes gravitation to torsion,...
by Maurizio Gasperini
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2013
This reference textbook is an up-to-date and self-contained introduction to the theory of gravitational interactions. The first part of the book follows the traditional presentation of general relativity as a geometric theory of the macroscopic gravitational field. A second, advanced part then discusses...
Unified Principles of Physics
Black Holes, Galactic Structure, Gravity, and Dark Matter
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
The search for the “Unified Principles of Physics” which describes all that we see has long been the quest of many scientists and the general public. Newton, Einstein, Hawking and many more have all put their ideas into the flow of time … But many unanswered mysteries remained … These mysteries...
Lecture Notes on the General Theory of Relativity
From Newton’s Attractive Gravity to the Repulsive Gravity of Vacuum Energy
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
This book collects lectures on the general theory of relativity given by Dr. Øyvind Grøn at the University of Oslo, Norway. This accessible text allows students to follow the deductions all the way throughout the book.
Summary & Analysis of The Order of Time
A Guide to the Book by Carlo Rovelli
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2019
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Theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli explores the very nature of time, physics, humanity, and philosophy...
by Maurizio Gasperini
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
This is the second edition of a well-received book that is a modern, self-contained introduction to the theory of gravitational interactions. The new edition includes more details on gravitational waves of cosmological origin, the so-called brane world scenario, and gravitational time-delay effects.
The...
Accelerated Cosmic Expansion
Proceedings of the Fourth International Meeting on Gravitation and Cosmology
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Proceedings from the 2012 Fourth International Meeting on Gravitation and Cosmology, focusing on accelerated cosmic expansion
This volume provides both an update and a review of the state of alternative theories of gravity in connection with the accelerated expansion of the universe issue....
Relativity and Gravitation
100 Years after Einstein in Prague
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
In early April 1911 Albert Einstein arrived in Prague to become full professor of theoretical physics at the German part of Charles University. It was there, for the first time, that he concentrated primarily on the problem of gravitation. Before he left Prague in July 1912 he had submitted the paper...
Introduction to General Relativity
A Course for Undergraduate Students of Physics
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
Following the approach of Lev Landau and Evgenii Lifshitz, this book introduces the theory of special and general relativity with the Lagrangian formalism and the principle of least action. This method allows the complete theory to be constructed starting from a small number of assumptions, and is...
Supersymmetric Gravity and Black Holes
Proceedings of the INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati School on the Attractor Mechanism 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
This book is based upon lectures presented in the summer of 2009 at the INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati School on Attractor Mechanism, directed by Stefano Bellucci. The symposium included such prestigious lecturers as S. Ferrara, G. Dall'Agata, J.F. Morales, J. Simón and M. Trigiante. All...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
These proceedings collect the selected contributions of participants of the First Karl Schwarzschild Meeting on Gravitational Physics, held in Frankfurt, Germany to celebrate the 140th anniversary of Schwarzschild's birth. They are grouped into 4 main themes: I. The Life and Work of Karl Schwarzschild;...
by Dr. John Stover
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Albert Einstein is well known for his theory of relativity; however, what is not well known is that a lot of very smart people think he made a mistake. An error in thinking that, among other things, may be responsible for our inability to explain the gravity force – something we interact with...
LQG for the Bewildered
The Self-Dual Approach Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
This primer offers a concise introduction to Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG)
- a theoretical framework for uniting Quantum Mechanics (QM) with General Relativity (GR). The emphasis is on the physical aspects of the framework and its historical development in terms of self-dual variables, still most suited...
Negative Frequency at the Horizon
Theoretical Study and Experimental Realisation of Analogue Gravity Physics in Dispersive Optical Media
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
This book is part of a large and growing body of work on the observation of analogue gravity effects, such as Hawking radiation, in laboratory systems.
The book is highly didactic, skillfully navigating between concepts ranging from quantum field theory on curved space-times, nonlinear...