Feynman Lectures On Gravitation (eBook)

Richard Feynman, Brian Hatfield, Fernando Morinigo, David Pines, William Wagner (Autoren)

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2018
280 Seiten
CRC Press (Verlag)
978-0-429-98248-4 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.5.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Mechanik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Quantenphysik
• ISBN-10: 0-429-98248-8 / 0429982488
• ISBN-13: 978-0-429-98248-4 / 9780429982484