Bryce Dewitt's Lectures on Gravitation: Edited by Steven M. Christensen

By Bryce S. DeWitt

Review of the Uses of Invariants in Special Relativity.- Accelerated Motion in Special Relativity.- Realization of Continuous Groups.- Riemannian Manifolds.- The Free Particle Geodesics.- Weak Field Approximation. Newton s Theory.- Ensembles of Particles.- Production of Gravitational Fields by Matter.- Conservation Laws.- Phenomenological Description of a Conservative Continuous Medium.- Solubility of the Einstein and Matter Equations.- Energy, Momentum and Stress in the Gravitational Field.- Measurement of Asymptotic Field.- The Electromagnetic Field.- Gravitational Waves.- Spinning Bodies.- Weak Field Gravitational Wave.- Stationary Spherically (or Rotationally) Symmetric Metric.- Kerr Metric Subcalculations.- Friedmann Cosmology.- Dynamical Equations and Diffeomorphisms.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3540369090
• ISBN13: 9783540369097
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"