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Acceleration
Angular momentum
Author_Ignazio Ciufolini
Author_John Archibald Wheeler
Binary pulsar
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Cauchy surface
Chronology protection conjecture
Classical electromagnetism
Closed timelike curve
Coordinate system
Cosmological constant
Curvature
Deceleration parameter
Einstein field equations
Electromagnetic radiation
Energy density
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Equation
Equations of motion
Equivalence principle
Flatness problem
Four-velocity
Frame-dragging
Gaussian curvature
General relativity
Geodesy
Geometrodynamics
Geometry
Graviphoton
Gravitational field
Gravitational redshift
Gravitational time dilation
Gravitational wave
Gravitational-wave observatory
Gravitoelectromagnetism
Gravity
Horizon problem
Hubble's law
Hypersurface
Interferometry
Inverse-square law
LAGEOS
Lambda-CDM model
Lorentz covariance
Lorentz transformation
Mach's principle
Mass
Mass-energy equivalence
Measurement
Metric tensor (general relativity)
Minkowski space
Negative energy
Nodal precession
Nordtvedt effect
Orbital period
Penrose process
Photon
Physical cosmology
Pseudo-Riemannian manifold
Quantity
Quantum fluctuation
Raychaudhuri equation
Resonance
Riemann curvature tensor
Rotation
Schwarzschild metric
Spacecraft
Special relativity
Stress-energy tensor
Test particle
Thomas precession
World line
Wormhole
Product details
- ISBN 9780691033235
- Weight: 851g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 13 Aug 1995
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 attention to the theory's observational checks and to two of its consequences: the predicted existence of gravitomagnetism and the origin of inertia (local inertial frames) in Einstein's general relativity: inertia here arises from mass there. The authors explain the modern understanding of the link between gravitation and inertia in Einstein's theory, from the origin of inertia in some cosmological models of the universe, to the interpretation of the initial value formulation of Einstein's standard geometrodynamics; and from the devices and the methods used to determine the local inertial frames of reference, to the experiments used to detect and measure the "dragging of inertial frames of reference." In this book, Ciufolini and Wheeler emphasize present, past, and proposed tests of gravitational interaction, metric theories, and general relativity.
They describe the numerous confirmations of the foundations of geometrodynamics and some proposed experiments, including space missions, to test some of its fundamental predictions--in particular gravitomagnetic field or "dragging of inertial frames" and gravitational waves.
Ignazio Ciufolini is a Research Associate at CNR-IFSI in Rome. John Archibald Wheeler, one of the world's foremost relativists, is Professor Emeritus of Physics at Princeton University. His books include A Journey into Gravity and Spacetime; with Edwin F. Taylor, Spacetime Physics; and, with Charles Misner and Kip Thorne, Gravitation; all published by W. H. Freeman & Co.
