Gravity

This book focuses on the development and implementation of the longitudinal, angular and frequency controls of the Advanced Virgo detector, both from the simulation and experimental point of view, which contributed to Virgo reaching a sensitivity that enabled it to join the LIGO-Virgo O2 run in August 2017.

This book addresses supergravity and supergravity-motivated effective field theories in the context of cosmological model building.

GNSS Seismogeodesy: Theory and Applications combines GNSS and seismology theory and applications to offer both disciplines the background information needed to combine forces.

This self-contained monograph provides a mathematically simple and physically meaningful model which unifies gravity, electromagnetism, optics and even some quantum behavior.

zurTheoretischenPhysik Mit diesem mehrbändigen Werk lege ich ein Lehrbuch der Theore- schen Physik vor, das dem an vielen deutschsprachigen Universitäten eingeführten Aufbau der Vorlesungen folgt: die Mechanik und die nic- relativistische Quantenmechanik, die in Geist, Zielsetzung und Met- dik nahe verwandt sind, stehen nebeneinander und stellen die Grund- gen für das Hauptstudium bereit, die eine für die klassischen Gebiete, die andere für Wahlfach- und Spezialvorlesungen.

This book discusses topics related to Newtonian mechanics and is ideal for a one semester course.

The book is based on the course on general relativity given regularly at the Physics Department of Novosibirsk University.

One wants to preserve history.

How does Einstein's description of space and time compare with Doctor Who?

This introductory text covers all the key concepts, relationships, and ideas behind spaceflight and is the perfect companion for students pursuing courses on or related to astronautics.

"e;From nothing I have created a new different world,"e; wrote Janos Bolyai to his father, Wolgang Bolyai, on November 3, 1823, to let him know his discovery of non-Euclidean geometry, as we call it today.

This book shows readers how to calculate the orbit of Mars, based on their own observations and using observations made by the author.

This book delves into finite mathematics and its application in physics, particularly quantum theory.

The ancient Greeks believed that everything in the Universe should be describable in terms of geometry.

This textbook introduces the special theory of relativity at a level which is accessible to undergraduate students and even high school students with a strong foundation in algebra.

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This book offers an introduction to statistical mechanics, special relativity, and quantum physics.

Modem dynamics is increasingly participating in the solution of problems raised by as- tronomical observations.

In this book the author derives, under the classical non-relativistic consideration of the space-time, general forms of the most common physical laws invariant under the changes of inertial or non-inertial coordinate systems, both in the classical and the quantum regime.

This book has been prepared to celebrate the 65th birthday of Gabriele Veneziano and his retirement from CERN in September 2007.

This book, the first in a three-volume set, explains general relativity using the mathematical tool of differential geometry.

All physicists would agree that one of the most fundamental problems of the 21st century physics is the dimensionality of the world.

This book covers all the key concepts, relationships, and ideas behind spaceflight and is the perfect companion for students pursuing courses on, or related to, astronautics.

This book takes the reader for a short journey over the structures of matter showing that their main properties can be obtained even at a quantitative level with a minimum background knowledge including, besides first year calculus and physics, the extensive use of dimensional analysis and the three cornerstones of science, namely the atomic idea, the wave-particle duality and the minimization of energy as the condition for equilibrium.

„Das vorliegende Büchlein soll solchen eine möglichst exakte Einsicht in die Relativitätstheorie vermitteln, die sich vom allgemein wissenschaftlichen, philosophischen Standpunkt für die Theorie interessieren, ohne den mathematischen Apparat der theoretischen Physik zu beherrschen.

Understanding the stars is the bedrock of modern astrophysics.

This book presents a multidisciplinary guide to gauge theory and gravity, with chapters by the world's leading theoretical physicists, mathematicians, historians and philosophers of science.

This book presents the author's personal historical perspective and conceptual analysis on symmetry and geometry.

A unified quantum theory incorporating the four fundamental forces of nature is one of the major open problems in physics.

Relativistic quantum electrodynamics, which describes the electromagneticinteractions of electrons and atomic nuclei, provides the basis for modeling the electronic structure of atoms, molecules and solids and of their interactions with photons and other projectiles.

The main feature of this book is the emphasis on "e;practice"e;.

Classical mechanics is the basis for any university-level study of technical-scientific disciplines.

One of the most of exciting aspects is the general relativity pred- tion of black holes and the Such Big Bang.

The aim of the State of the Universe annuals is to provide an annual astronomy review suitable for the popular science level reader to be published every September.

This book provides an introduction to classical celestial mechanics.

This book is a small but practical summary of how one can and should learn science.

This work investigates the theoretical and cosmological implications of modifying Einstein's theory of general relativity.

The high accuracy of modern astronomical spatial-temporal reference systems has made them considerably complex.

The theory of General Relativity, after its invention by Albert Einstein, remained for many years a monument of mathemati- cal speculation, striking in its ambition and its formal beauty, but quite separated from the main stream of modern Physics, which had centered, after the early twenties, on quantum mechanics and its applications.

The articles included in this Volume represent a broad and highly qualified view on the present state of general relativity, quantum gravity, and their cosmological and astrophysical implications.

Satellite Gravimetry and the Solid Earth: Mathematical Foundations presents the theories behind satellite gravimetry data and their connections to solid Earth.

This handbook provides an updated comprehensive description of gravitational wave astronomy.

This thesis explores the connection between gravity and thermodynamics and provides a unification scheme that opens up new directions of exploration.