ISBN 9780813340388 | 0813340381 Textbooks - "Feynman Lectures On Gravitation Frontiers in Physics" by William Wagner Richard Feynman David Pines Brian Hatfield Fernando Morinigo

Authors: William Wagner - Richard Feynman - David Pines - Brian Hatfield - Fernando Morinigo
ISBN 10: 0813340381
ISBN 13: 9780813340388
Edition: 1st
Release: June 20, 2002
Format: Paperback (272 pages)
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Tags: Science, Physics, Quantum Theory,

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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.

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