A journey into gravity and spacetime

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A journey into gravity and spacetime

John Archibald Wheeler

(Scientific American Library paperback, no. 31)

Scientific American Library : Distributed by W.H. Freeman, c1999

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Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

An introduction to Einstein's geometric theory of gravity and its implications for the relationship between mass and spacetime. Arguing that gravity closely connects the world around us and the innermost workings of the universe, the book applies Einstein's theory to many different phenomena.

目次

  • Great men, great ideas
  • from fall to float
  • interval - revelation that all of space is ours
  • boomerang through the Earth
  • tides - the grip of mass on spacetime
  • momenergy - the grip of spacetime on mass
  • the boundary of a boundary - where the action is
  • from potter's wheel to space geometry
  • picturing space and spacetime around a centre of mass
  • stones in flight and planets in orbit
  • gravity waves
  • black holes
  • a farewell look at gravity.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA49791345
  • ISBN
    • 0716760347
  • LCCN
    89024256
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    New York
  • ページ数/冊数
    xii, 257 p.
  • 大きさ
    24 cm
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