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Recent developments in gravitation : Cargèse 1978
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ISBN: 0306401983 1461329574 1461329558 9780306401985 Year: 1979 Volume: 44 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Plenum,

Theory and experiment in gravitational physics
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ISBN: 0521439736 9780521439732 9780511564246 Year: 1993 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge university press,

Three hundred years of gravitation
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ISBN: 0521379768 0521343127 9780521343121 9780521379762 Year: 1987 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,

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To commemorate the 300th anniversary of the publication of Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Stephen Hawking and Werner Israel assembled a series of unique review papers by many of the world's foremost researchers in cosmology, relativity, and particle physics. The resulting volume reflects the significant and exciting advances that have been made in these fields since the editors' acclaimed volume, General Relativity: An Einstein Centenary Survey (CUP 1979). Newton's immense contribution to the physical sciences is assessed, and its relevance to today's physics made clear. The international group of contributors then chart the major developments in the study of gravitation, from Newtonian gravity to black hole physics. In the fields of galaxy formation, inflationary and quantum cosmology, and superstring unification, the book provides important overviews written by workers involved in the many advances described. By shaping such a wide-ranging and scholarly series of articles into a cohesive whole, the editors have created a fitting and lasting memorial to the man who continues to inspire scientists the world over.


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Geometrical physics in Minkowski spacetime
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ISSN: 14397382 ISBN: 1852333669 1849968667 1447138937 9781852333669 Year: 2001 Publisher: London : Springer,


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Astrophysics and gravitation : proceedings of the sixteenth Solvay conference on physics at the University of Brussels, September 1973
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ISBN: 2800405961 9782800405964 Year: 1974 Publisher: Bruxelles: ULB,


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Action at a distance in physics and cosmology
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ISBN: 0716703467 9780716703464 Year: 1974 Publisher: San Francisco (Calif.): Freeman,

Gravitational waves in Einstein's theory
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ISBN: 0706512871 047098113X 9780706512878 Year: 1973 Publisher: Jerusalem : Israel program for scientific translations,


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Interplanetary encounters : close-range gravitational interactions
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ISBN: 0444413715 9780444413710 Year: 1976 Volume: 2 Publisher: Amsterdam : Elsevier scientific,

Gravitation and inertia
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ISBN: 0691033234 9780691033235 Year: 1995 Publisher: Princeton (N.J.) : Princeton university press,

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Einstein's standard and battle-tested geometric theory of gravity--spacetime tells mass how to move and mass tells spacetime how to curve--is expounded in this book by Ignazio Ciufolini and John Wheeler. They give special attention to the theory's observational checks and to two of its consequences: the predicted existence of gravitomagnetism and the origin of inertia (local inertial frames) in Einstein's general relativity: inertia 'here' arises from mass 'there'.The authors explain the modern understanding of the link between gravitation and inertia in Einstein's theory, from the origin of inertia in some cosmological models of the universe, to the interpretation of the initial value formulation of Einstein's standard geometrodynamicsand from the devices and the methods used to determine the local inertial frames of reference, to the experiments used to detect and measure the "dragging of inertial frames of reference." In this book, Ciufolini and Wheeler emphasize present, past, and proposed tests of gravitational interaction, metric theories, and general relativity. They describe the numerous confirmations of the foundations of geometrodynamics and some proposed experiments, including space missions, to test some of its fundamental predictions--in particular gravitomagnetic field or "dragging of inertial frames" and gravitational waves.

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