Gravitation and Spacetime - Hardcover

Ohanian, Hans C.; Ruffini, Remo

 
9781107012943: Gravitation and Spacetime
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1107012945 ISBN 13: 9781107012943
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2013

Synopsis

This text provides a quantitative introduction to general relativity for advanced undergraduate and graduate students.

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About the Authors

Hans C. Ohanian received his BS from the University of California, Berkeley, and his PhD from Princeton University, where he worked with John A. Wheeler. He has taught at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the University of Vermont, and in summer courses at UNED in Spain. He has published several textbooks in addition to Gravity and Spacetime, including Classical Electrodynamics and Principles of Quantum Mechanics, as well as articles on various aspects of relativity and quantum theory.

Remo Ruffini is the Chair of Theoretical Physics at the University of Rome, where he received his PhD, and has also taught at Princeton University. He is an editor of the International Journal of Modern Physics and has acted as an advisor to NASA and the Italian Space Agency. In addition to Gravitation and Spacetime, his published works include Cosmology from Space Platforms, Black Holes, Gravitational Waves and Cosmology, Basic Concepts in Relativistic Astrophysics, Gamow Cosmology and various articles and edited volumes.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1107012945
ISBN 13 
9781107012943
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
3
Number of pages
546