Three hundred years of gravitation /

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Imprint:Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Description:xiii, 684 p. : ill. : 26 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/850748
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Other title:300 years of gravitation.
Other authors / contributors:Hawking, Stephen, 1942-
Israel, W.
ISBN:0521343127
Notes:Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • 1. Newton's Principia
  • 2. Newtonianism and today's physics
  • 3. Newton, quantum theory and reality
  • 4. Experiments on gravitation
  • 5. Experimental gravitation from Newton's Principia to Einstein's general relativity
  • 6. The problem of motion in Newtonian and Einsteinian gravity
  • 7. Dark stars: the evolution of an idea
  • 8. Astrophysical black holes
  • 9. Gravitational radiation
  • 10. The emergence of structure in the universe: galaxy formation and dark matter
  • 11. Gravitational interactions of cosmic strings
  • 12. Inflationary cosmology
  • 13. Inflation and quantum cosmology
  • 14. Quantum cosmology
  • 15. Superstring unification
  • 16. Covariant description of canonical formalism in geometrical theories
  • Index