Feynman Lectures On Gravitation (Frontiers in Physics) - Hardcover

Feynman, Richard; Morinigo, Fernando; Wagner, William; Hatfield, Brian; Pines, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367091941 ISBN 13: 9780367091941

Publisher: CRC Press, 2019

Synopsis

The Feynman Lectures on Gravitation are based on notes prepared during a course on gravitational physics that Richard Feynman taught at Caltech during the 1962-63 academic year. For several years prior to these lectures, Feynman thought long and hard about the fundamental problems in gravitational physics, yet he published very little. These lectures represent a useful record of his viewpoints and some of his insights into gravity and its application to cosmology, superstars, wormholes, and gravitational waves at that particular time. The lectures also contain a number of fascinating digressions and asides on the foundations of physics and other issues.Characteristically, Feynman took an untraditional non-geometric approach to gravitation and general relativity based on the underlying quantum aspects of gravity. Hence, these lectures contain a unique pedagogical account of the development of Einstein's general theory of relativity as the inevitable result of the demand for a self-consistent theory of a massless spin-2 field (the graviton) coupled to the energy-momentum tensor of matter. This approach also demonstrates the intimate and fundamental connection between gauge invariance and the principle of equivalence.

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Richard Feynman

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• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0367091941
• ISBN 13: 9780367091941
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280