Gravitational Waves

General Relativity and Gravitational Waves

Upper-level undergraduates and graduate students receive a brief but thorough introduction to the foundations of general relativity from a pioneer in the investigation of gravitational waves, who introduces the related Riemannian geometry and tensor calculus, conservation laws, and classic experiments
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Feynman Lectures on Gravitation

Feynman Lectures on Gravitation: Richard Feynman, Fernando Morinigo, William Wagner, Brian Hatfield, David Pines, Fernando B. Morinigo
Westview Press | ISBN: 0813340381 | July 15, 2002 | djvu (ocr) | 272 pages | 1.27 MB
Based on the in-class lectures of Richard Feynman, this book covers a wide range of topics in physics and provides [...]

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Reviews in Modern Astronomy Cosmic Matter

Siegfried Röser, “Reviews in Modern Astronomy, Cosmic Matter ”
Wiley-VCH | 2008-10-20 | ISBN: 3527408207 | 426 pages | PDF | 9,5 MB
This 20th volume in the series contains 16 invited reviews and highlight contributions presented during the 2007 International Scientific Conference of the German Astronomical Society on the topic of “Cosmic Matter”, held in [...]

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Gravitational Radiation Luminous Black Holes and Gamma-Ray Burst Supernovae

Maurice H. P. M. van Putten, “Gravitational Radiation”
Cambridge University Press | 2006-01-09 | ISBN: 0521849608 | 326 pages | PDF | 2,9 MB
Black holes and gravitational radiation are two of the most dramatic predictions of general relativity. The quest for rotating black holes – discovered by Roy P. Kerr as exact solutions to the Einstein [...]

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Space Time Matter

Hermann Weyl, “Space, Time, Matter”
Dover Publications | 1952-06-01 | ISBN: 0486602672 | 330 pages | DjVu | 2,9 MB
“A classic of physics … the first systematic presentation of Einsteins theory of relativity”
British Journal for Philosophy and Science.
Long one of the standard texts in the field, this excellent introduction probes deeply into Euclidean space, Riemanns space, [...]

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100 Years of Relativity: Space-time Structure Einstein And Beyond

Abhay Ashtekar, “100 Years of Relativity”
World Scientific Publishing Company | 2006-04 | ISBN: 9812563946 | 510 pages | PDF | 5,6 MB
Thanks to Einstein’s relativity theories, our notions of space and time underwent profound revisions about a 100 years ago. The resulting interplay between geometry and physics has dominated all of fundamental physics since then. [...]

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Gravitational Radiation

Maurice H. P. M. van Putten, "Gravitational Radiation"
Cambridge University Press | 2006-01-09 | ISBN: 0521849608 | 326 pages | PDF | 2,9 MB
Black holes and gravitational radiation are two of the most dramatic predictions of general relativity. The quest for rotating black holes – discovered by Roy P. Kerr as exact solutions to the Einstein [...]

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Elements of Numerical Relativity: From Einstein`s Equations to Black Hole Simulations

Carles Bona, Carlos Palenzuela-Luque, “Elements of Numerical Relativity”
Springer | 2005-08-22 | ISBN: 3540257799 | 151 pages | PDF | 2,4 MB
Spurred by the current development of numerous large-scale projects for detecting gravitational radiation, with the aim to open a completely new window to the observable Universe, numerical relativity has become a major field of research [...]

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Gravitational Waves

Ignazio Ciufolini, Vittorio Gorini, Ugo Moschella, Pietro Fre, “Gravitational Waves”
IOP | 2001 | ISBN: 0750307412 | 412 pages | PDF | 2,8 MB
Gravitational waves (GWs) are a hot topic and promise to play a central role in astrophysics, cosmology, and theoretical physics. Technological developments have led us to the brink of their direct observation, which [...]

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Gravitation and Inertia

Ignazio Ciufolini, John Archibald Wheeler “Gravitation and Inertia”
Princeton University Press | 2008-12-16 | ISBN: 0691033234 | 498 pages | PDF | 19,8 MB
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 [...]

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