Relatively Speaking Contributor(s): Chaisson, Eric J. (Author), Chaisson, Lola Judith (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393306755 ISBN-13: 9780393306750 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $20.85 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1990 Annotation: "Beginning with a clear, nontechnical discussion of both the 'special' and 'general' theories of relativity, astrophysicist Chaisson explores their theoretical and experimental bases and what these say about the origin and structure of the universe".--Library Journal Photographs and drawings. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Science | Physics - Relativity - Science | Astronomy - Science | Cosmology |
Dewey: 530.11 |
LCCN: 00000000 |
Series: Relativity, Black Holes, and the Fate of the Universe |
Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.51" W x 8.25" (0.70 lbs) 256 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This book is based upon a series of lectures delivered during the past decade to nontechnical audiences at Harvard University. As in the lectures, Eric Chaisson aims here to share the fundamentals of relativity theory, as well as some of its cosmological and black-hole applications, with anyone having an abiding curiosity about the nature of our world. |