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  title info:
    title: Bryce DeWitt's Lectures on Gravitation
    sub title: Edited by Steven M. Christensen
  name:
    name part: DeWitt, Bryce.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Christensen, Steven M.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 288 p. 10 illus. online resource.
  abstract: Bryce DeWitt, a student of Nobel Laureate Julian Schwinger, was himself one of the towering figures in 20th century physics, particularly renowned for his seminal contributions to quantum field theory, numerical relativity and quantum gravity. In late 1971 DeWitt gave a course on gravitation at Stanford University, leaving almost 400 pages of detailed handwritten notes. Written with clarity and authority, and edited by his former student Steven Christensen, these timeless lecture notes, containing material or expositions not found in any other textbooks, are a gem to be discovered or re-discovered by anyone seriously interested in the study of gravitational physics.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: by Bryce DeWitt ; edited by Steven M. Christensen.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Differential geometry
  subject:
    topic: Gravitation
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical Methods in Physics
  subject:
    topic: Differential Geometry
  classification: QC178
  classification: QC173.5-173.65
  classification: 530.1
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Lecture Notes in Physics, 826
  identifier: 9783540369110
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-36911-0
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    record creation date: 110614
    record change date: 20151030061520.0
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