Gravitational waves : an overview

著者

• Feldbaum, David M.

書誌事項

Gravitational waves : an overview

David M. Feldbaum

（Synthesis lectures on wave phenomena in the physical sciences / series editor, Sanichiro Yoshida, 3）

Morgan & Claypool Publishers, c2020

• :paperback

注記

Includes bibliographical references

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Gravitational wave (GW) research is one of the most rapidly developing subfields in experimental physics today. The theoretical underpinnings of this endeavor trace to the discussions of the "speed of gravity" in the 18th century, but the modern understanding of this phenomena was not realized until the middle of the 20th century. The minuteness of the gravitational force means that the effects associated with GWs are vanishingly small. To detect the GWs produced by the most enormously energetic sources in the universe, humans had to build devices capable of measuring the tiniest amounts of forces and displacements.This book delves into the exploration of the basics of the theory of GW, their generation, propagation, and detection by various methods. It does not delve into the depths of Einstein's General Relativity, but instead discusses successively closer approximations to the full theory. As a result, the book should be accessible to an ambitious undergraduate student majoring in physics or engineering. It could be read concurrently with standard junior-level textbooks in classical mechanics, and electromagnetic theory.

目次

Introduction The Wave Equation Waves of What? Plane Gravitational Waves Overview Static Sources and Static Multipoles Waves from Retarded Potentials Magnetism and Gravito-Magnetism Tidal Field as Gravielectric Field Frame-Drag Field as Gravimagnetic Field Gravitational Waves in Terms of Tidal and Frame-Drag Fields Overview of General Relativity Gravitational Waves and Einstein Equations Overview Black Holes Neutron Stars Early Universe Overview What Should We Measure? The Signals Evidence from Pulsars Noises Mechanical Detection Interferometry Terrestrial Interferometric Detection Space-Based Detection Atomic Gravitational Wave Detectors Pulsar Timing Array Polarization of Cosmic Microwave Background Bibliography Author's Biography

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BC04991925
• ISBN:
  • 9781681737157
• 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: [San Rafael, Calif.]
• ページ数/冊数: xiii, 159 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm.
• 親書誌ID:
  • BC03457951