Gravity

With a rare blend of scientific insight and writing as graceful as the theories it so deftly explains, The Elegant Universe remains the unrivaled a...

This textbook offers an introduction to statistical mechanics, special relativity, and quantum physics, developed from lecture notes for the Quantu...

This book offers an excellent introduction to General Relativity and Cosmology. It is designed to serve as a self-contained text for graduate and a...

This book offers an updated comprehensive review of the rapidly expanding field of GRMHD simulations. In Part I, it reviews the basic equations for...

Graduate students typically enter into courses on string theory having little to no familiarity with the mathematical background so crucial to the ...

Pulsars, since their discovery in 1967, have been regarded as natural laboratories for the study of matter under extreme physical conditions of den...

Physicists will tell you that four forces control the universe. Of these, gravity may the most obvious, but it is also the most mysterious. Newton ...

Orbital motions have always been used to test gravitational theories which, from time to time, have challenged the then-dominant paradigms. This bo...

This book aims to present the topic of nonlinear and chaotic dynamics in a manner that is useful and beneficial to students and young researchers f...

There is little doubt that Einstein's theory of relativity captures the imagination. Not only has it radically altered the way we view the universe...

The search for a theory of quantum gravity is one of the most important and fascinating problems in modern theoretical physics. While we do not hav...

This thesis presents a novel analysis of a photometric observational feature of Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia), the most precise distance indicators a...

In diesem Buch wird die Suche nach extraterrestrischen Strukturen diskutiert, die möglicherweise künstlichen Ursprungs sind. Die Fahndung nach küns...

Questo libro si propone di fornire un'introduzione, allo stesso tempo accessibile e completa, alle stelle compatte. Dopo una prima parte dedicata a...

A complete treatment of all aspects of dark matter physicsThis book provides an incisive, self-contained introduction to one of the most intriguing...

A complete treatment of all aspects of dark matter physicsThis book provides an incisive, self-contained introduction to one of the most intriguing...

This book presents a single geometric language for the fundamental physics that has been discovered from the beginning of the twentieth century to ...

Covariant Physics: From Classical Mechanics to General Relativity and Beyond endeavours to provide undergraduate students as well as self-learners ...

This book offers a comprehensive exploration into the intertwined realms of Einstein's theory of general relativity, the discoveries of black holes...

This textbook offers you a profound understanding of the core concepts in electrostatics and magnetostatics. Emphasis is placed on establishing str...

This second edition of The Geometry of Special Relativity - a Concise Course offers more than just corrections and enhancements. It includes a new ...

This book investigates conformal line defects in both the weak- and strong-coupling regimes. Conformal field theory finds applications across diver...

Gravity is the weakest of the natural forces and yet it dominates our lives. We know how to make use of its properties and how to overcome it. But ...

. The main aim of this book is to shine a spotlight on key experiments and their crucial importance for advancing our understanding of physics. Phy...

A unified quantum theory incorporating the four fundamental forces of nature is one of the major open problems in physics. The Standard Model combi...

This book provides a mathematical and numerical analysis of many problems which lead to paradoxes in contemporary cosmology, in particular, the exi...

In this book the author derives, under the classical non-relativistic consideration of the space-time, general forms of the most common physical la...

This book is a gentle introduction for all those wishing to learn about modern views of the cosmos. Our universe originated in a great explosion t...

A short, graduate-level synthesis of recent developments in theoretical physics, from a pioneer in the fieldLectures on the Infrared Structure of G...

First published in 1973, Gravitation is a landmark graduate-level textbook that presents Einstein's general theory of relativity and offers a rigor...