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Gravity : Where Do We Stand? by Roberto Peron, Monica Colpi, Vittorio Gorini, Ugo Moschella (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Gravity : Where Do We Stand? about?

This book presents an overview of the current understanding of gravitation, with a focus on the current efforts to test its theory, especially general relativity. It shows how the quest for a deeper theory, which would possibly incorporate gravity in the quantum realm, is more than ever an open field. The majority of the contributions deals with the manifold facets of “experimental gravitation”, but the book goes beyond this and covers a broad range of subjects from the foundations of gravitational theories to astrophysics and cosmology. The book is divided into three parts. The first part deals with foundations and Solar System tests. An introductory pedagogical chapter reviews first Newtonian gravitational theory, special relativity, the equivalence principle and the basics of general relativity. Then it focuses on approximation methods, mainly the post-Newtonian formalism and the relaxed Einstein equations, with a discussion on how they are used in treating experimental tests and in the problem of generation and detection of gravitational waves. Following this is a set of chapters describing the most recent experiments, techniques and observations on the testing   of gravity the

Who reads Gravity : Where Do We Stand??

Author

Roberto Peron, Monica Colpi, Vittorio Gorini, Ugo Moschella (eds.)

Publisher

Springer International Publishing

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9783319202242

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Physics, Astronomy