Bryce DeWitt's Lectures on Gravitation

Edited by Steven M. Christensen

By: Bryce DeWitt, Steven M. Christensen (Editor)

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Paperback | 23 February 2011

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Review of the Uses of Invariants in Special Relativity.- Accelerated Motion in Special Relativity.- Realization of Continuous Groups.- Riemannian Manifolds.- The Free Particle Geodesics.- Weak Field Approximation. Newton s Theory.- Ensembles of Particles.- Production of Gravitational Fields by Matter.- Conservation Laws.- Phenomenological Description of a Conservative Continuous Medium.- Solubility of the Einstein and Matter Equations.- Energy, Momentum and Stress in the Gravitational Field.- Measurement of Asymptotic Field.- The Electromagnetic Field.- Gravitational Waves.- Spinning Bodies.- Weak Field Gravitational Wave.- Stationary Spherically (or Rotationally) Symmetric Metric.- Kerr Metric Subcalculations.- Friedmann Cosmology.- Dynamical Equations and Diffeomorphisms.

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"DeWitt's lectures cover interesting and detailed material which is rarely found in other text books. It is a book for the advanced reader." (Norbert Dragon, General Relativity and Gravitation, Vol. 44, 2012)

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