Bryce DeWitt's lectures on gravitation /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	DeWitt, Bryce S. (Bryce Seligman), 1923-2004.
Imprint:	Heidelberg ; New York : Springer, ©2011.
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 287 pages) : illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	Lecture notes in physics, 1616-6361 ; v. 826 Lecture notes in physics ; 826.
Subject:	Gravitation. Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory. Mathematical Methods in Physics. Differential Geometry. Physique. Astronomie. Gravitation. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11075743

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Varying Form of Title:	Lectures on gravitation
Other authors / contributors:	Christensen, Steven M.
ISBN:	9783540369110 3540369112 9783540369097 3540369090
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Bryce DeWitt, a student of Nobel Laureate Julian Schwinger, was himself one of the towering figures in 20th century physics, particularly renowned for his seminal contributions to quantum field theory, numerical relativity and quantum gravity. In late 1971, DeWitt gave a course on gravitation at Stanford University, leaving almost 400 pages of detailed handwritten notes. Written with clarity and authority, and edited by his former student Steven Christensen, these timeless lecture notes, containing material or expositions not found in any other textbooks, are a gem to be discovered or re-discovered by anyone seriously interested in the study of gravitational physics--P. 4 of cover.
Other form:	Print version: DeWitt, Bryce S. (Bryce Seligman), 1923-2004. Bryce DeWitt's lectures on gravitation. Heidelberg ; New York: Springer, ©2011 3540369090
Standard no.:	10.1007/978-3-540-36911-0

Table of Contents:

Review of the uses of invariants in special relativity
Accelerated motion in special relativity
Realizations of continuous groups
Riemannian manifolds
The free particles. Geodesics
Weak field approximation. Newton's theory
Ensembles of particles
Production of gravitational fields by matter
Conservation laws
Phenomenological description of a conservative continuous medium
Solubility of the Einstein and matter equations
Energy, momentum and stress in the gravitational field
Measurement of asymptotic fields
The electromagnetic field
Gravitational waves
Appendix A: Spinning bodies
Appendix B: Weak field gravitational wave
Appendix C: Stationary spherically (or rotationally) symmetric metric
Appendix D: Kerr metric subcalculations
Appendix E: Friedmann cosmology
Appendix F: Dynamical equations and diffeomorphisms.