Gravitational Waves
Morgan & Claypool Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-68173-717-1 (ISBN)
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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.
David M. Feldbaum received his Ph.D. in experimental physics from the University of Michigan in 2003, working with trapped atoms. As a postdoctoral researcher, he spent several years at Los Alamos National Laboratory working on trapping radioactive atoms, before joining the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Observatory in Louisiana as a part of the University of Florida research group. He joined the faculty of the Southeastern Louisiana University in 2014.
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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 24.08.2020 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Synthesis Lectures on Wave Phenomena in the Physical Sciences |
| Verlagsort | San Rafael |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 191 x 235 mm |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Relativitätstheorie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-68173-717-5 / 1681737175 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-68173-717-1 / 9781681737171 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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