Details

Subject(s)

• Gravitation [Browse]
• Quantum gravity [Browse]

Related name

• Morinigo, Fernando B. (Fernando Bernardino), 1936- [Browse]
• Wagner, William G. (William Gerard), 1936- [Browse]

Editor

• Hatfield, Brian [Browse]

Writer of foreword

• Preskill, John [Browse]
• Thorne, Kip S. [Browse]

Summary note

"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 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."--Jacket.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-228) and index.

ISBN

• 0201627345
• 9780201627343

Tech. report no.

95011076

LCCN

95011076

OCLC

32509962

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