| Feynman Lectures On Gravitation Contributor(s): Feynman, Richard (Author), Morinigo, Fernando (Author), Wagner, William (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813340381 ISBN-13: 9780813340388 Publisher: CRC Press OUR PRICE: $68.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2002 Annotation: Based on the in-class lectures of Richard Feynman, this book covers a wide range of topics in physics and provides a window to the thoughts of a brilliant Nobel laureate. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Physics - General |
| Dewey: 530.11 |
| Series: Frontiers in Physics |
| Physical Information: 0.59" H x 6" W x 9" (0.83 lbs) 280 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |