Gravity

This primer proposes a journey from Newton's dynamics to Einstein's relativity.

This book provides a comprehensive account of a modern generalisation of differential geometry in which coordinates need not commute.

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

In this book, all physical laws are derived from a small number of invariant integrals which express the conservation of energy, mass, or momentum.

This book provides an introduction to the mathematics and physics of general relativity, its basic physical concepts, its observational implications, and the new insights obtained into the nature of space-time and the structure of the universe.

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

This textbook develops Special Relativity in a systematic way and offers problems with detailed solutions to empower students to gain a real understanding of this core subject in physics.

This unique textbook offers a mathematically rigorous presentation of the theory of relativity, emphasizing the need for a critical analysis of the foundations of general relativity in order to best study the theory and its implications.

This undergraduate textbook provides a simple, concise introduction to tensor algebra and analysis, as well as special and general relativity.

This volume presents a selection of articles based on inspiring lectures held at the "e;Capri"e; Advanced Summer School, an original event conceived and promoted by Leonida Antonio Gizzi and Ralph Assmann that focuses on novel schemes for plasma-based particle acceleration and radiation sources, and which brings together researchers from the conventional accelerator community and from the high-intensity laser-matter interaction research fields.

This textbook offers a readily comprehensible introduction to classical Newtonian gravitation, which is fundamental for an understanding of classical mechanics and is particularly relevant to Astrophysics.

This book reports on the extraordinary observation of TeV gamma rays from the Crab Pulsar, the most energetic light ever detected from this type of object.

This book presents the first English translation of the original French treatise "e;La Physique d'Einstein"e;  written by the young Georges Lemaitre in 1922, only six years after the publication of Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity.

Despite the success of general relativity in explaining classical gravitational phenomena, several problems at the interface between gravitation and high energy physics still remain open.

Devised at the beginning of the 20th century by french physicists Charles Fabry and Alfred Perot, the Fabry-Perot optical cavity is perhaps the most deceptively simple setup in optics, and today a key resource in many areas of science and technology.

In the late 20th and beginning 21st century high-precision astronomy, positioning and metrology strongly rely on general relativity.

After an extensive introduction to the asymptotic safety approach to quantum gravity, this thesis explains recent key advances reported in four influential papers.

This primer brilliantly exposes concepts related to special and general relativity for the absolute beginner.

This book is based on lectures given at the first edition of the Domoschool, the International Alpine School in Mathematics and Physics, held in Domodossola, Italy, in July 2018.

Due to steadily improving experimental accuracy, relativistic concepts - based on Einstein's theory of Special and General Relativity - are playing an increasingly important role in modern geodesy.

Cosmology describes the evolution of the Universe and is based on a description of its beginning from quantum fluctuations.

This book explains and develops the Dirac equation in the context of general relativistic quantum mechanics in a range of spacetime dimensions.

Due to steadily improving experimental accuracy, relativistic concepts - based on Einstein's theory of Special and General Relativity - are playing an increasingly important role in modern geodesy.

This thesis uses the tools of quantum information science to uncover fascinating new insights about the intersection of quantum theory and relativity.

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This is a fascinating account of two great scientists of the 20th century: Einstein and Heisenberg, discoverers, respectively, of the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics.

This edited volume features essays written in honor of Ernst Mach.

These lecture notes are intended for starting PhD students in theoretical physics who have a working knowledge of General Relativity.

This textbook provides an introduction to gravitational lensing, which has become an invaluable tool in modern astrophysics, with applications that range from finding planets orbiting distant stars to understanding how dark matter and dark energy conspired to form the cosmic structures we see today.

Galileo established how objects of various mass, when released simultaneously, hit the earth at the exact same instant.

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

A leading theoretical physicist describes the search for a 'theory of everything'.

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If you're playing basketball, that's science in action!

Physics is already a difficult subject to tackle for adults; what more if it were taught to children?

Do you know the famous story of how Isaac Newton discovered gravity?

This book presents a collection of chapters in which researchers who have worked in the field of gravity for years reveal their visions of the origin of gravity.

This volume explores the interplay between mathematical and physical research and the interactions of twentieth-century scientists within their academic communities.

This book is a unique selection of work by world-class experts exploring the latest developments in Hamiltonian partial differential equations and their applications.

The International Conference, Orbis Scientiae 1996, focused on the topics: The Neutrino Mass, Light Cone Quantization, Monopole Condensation, Dark Matter, and Gravitational Waves which we have adopted as the title of these proceedings.

Multiply charged ions have always been in the focus of atomic physics, astrophysics, plasma physics, and theoretical physics.

The Hidden Hypotheses Behind the Big Bang It is quite unavoidable that many philosophical a priori assumptions lurk behind the debate between supporters of the Big Bang and the anti-BB camp.

The Symposium *Symmetries in Science VI: From the Rotation Group to Quantum Algebras* was held at the Cloister Mehrerau, Bregenz, Austria, during the period August 2-7, 1992.

The reader will find in this volume the Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute held in Cortina d' Ampezzo, Italy, between July 25 and August 6, 1993, under the title From Newton to Chaos: Modem Techniques for Understanding and Coping With Chaos inN-Body Dynamical Systems.

This volume contains invited papers and contributions delivered at the International Conference on Hamiltonian Mechanics: Integrability and Chaotic Behaviour, held in Tornn, Poland during the summer of 1993.