Gravitation Theory and Gravitational Collapse

John Archibald Wheeler

B.Kent Harrison

Kip S.Thorne

Masami Wakano

Univ of Chicago Pr

The autobiography of one of the preeminent figures in twentieth-century physics. He studied with Niels Bohr, taught Richard Feynman, and boned up on relativity with his friend and colleague Albert Einstein. John Archibald Wheeler's fascinating life brings us face to face with the central characters and discoveries of modern physics. He was the first American to learn of the discovery of nuclear fission, later coined the term "black hole," led a renaissance in gravitation physics, and helped to build Princeton University into a mecca for physicists. From nuclear physics, to quantum theory, to relativity and gravitation, Wheeler's work has set the trajectory of research for half a century. His career has brought him into contact with the most brilliant minds of his field; Fermi, Bethe, Rabi, Teller, Oppenheimer, and Wigner are among those he called colleagues and friends. In this rich autobiography, Wheeler reveals in fascinating detail the excitement of each discovery, the character of each colleague, and the underlying passion for knowledge that drives him still. Photographs

Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics

Biographies & Memoirs

Kenneth W. Ford

Professionals & Academics

W.W.Norton&Company

Written by two of the field's true pioneers, Spacetime Physics can extend and enhance coverage of specialty relativity in the classroom. This thoroughly up-to-date, highly accessible overview covers microgravity, collider accelerators, satellite probes, neutron detectors, radioastronomy, and pulsars. The chapter on general relativity with new material on gravity waves, black holes, and cosmology.

Spacetime Physics

Science & Math

Edwin F. Taylor

Mathematics

W.H.Freeman

208 pp + 61 pp of problem solutions2nd ed. copyright 1966(1st ed. copyright 1963)This book is a brief, readable exposition of modern Relativity Theory; illustrated and amplified by a wealth of problems, puzzles, and paradoxes and their detailed solutions.

Spacetime Physics (Physics Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Freeman

Magic without magic: John Archibald Wheeler;: A collection of essays in honor of his sixtieth birthday

W.H.Freeman and Company

This landmark text offers a rigorous full-year graduate level course on gravitation physics, teaching students to: • Grasp the laws of physics in flat spacetime • Predict orders of magnitude • Calculate using the principal tools of modern geometry • Predict all levels of precision • Understand Einstein's geometric framework for physics • Explore applications, including pulsars and neutron stars, cosmology, the Schwarzschild geometry and gravitational collapse, and gravitational waves • Probe experimental tests of Einstein's theory • Tackle advanced topics such as superspace and quantum geometrodynamics The book offers a unique, alternating two-track pathway through the subject: • In many chapters, material focusing on basic physical ideas is designated as Track 1. These sections together make an appropriate one-term advanced/graduate level course (mathematical prerequisites: vector analysis and simple partial-differential equations). The book is printed to make it easy for readers to identify these sections. • The remaining Track 2 material provides a wealth of advanced topics instructors can draw from to flesh out a two-term course, with Track 1 sections serving as prerequisites.

Gravitation

Charles W. Misner

Astronomy & Space Science

Physics

At Home in the Universe (Masters of Modern Physics)

Colleague and confidant of Einstein and Bohr, and pioneer of nuclear fission, John A. Wheeler is one of our most original and profound thinkers. In 1939 he published, with Niels Bohr, the first paper to successfully describe nuclear fission in terms of quantum physics - research that led to his involvement in the Los Alamos project. This volume presents essays by John Archibald Wheeler on the science and art of physics. Wheeler writes on a variety of major figures, including Max Planck, Marie Curie, Joseph Henry, Hideki Yukawa and, particularly, Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr. His wide-ranging essays reflect on the universe as a home for man and the responsibilities of a citizen-scientist, as well as cosmology, the art of science and death.

At Home in the Universe

American Institute of Physics

Gravitation und Raumzeit: Die vierdimensionale Ereigniswelt der Relativitätstheorie (German Edition)

Spektrum Akademischer Verlag

Juryoku riron : Gravitation koten rikigaku kara sotaisei riron made jiku no kikagaku kara uchu no kozo e.

Maruzenshuppan

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