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Author:   Bryce DeWitt ,  Steven M. Christensen
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   2011 ed.
Volume:   826
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.940kg
ISBN:  

9783540369097

ISBN 10:   3540369090
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   23 February 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Review of the Uses of Invariants in Special Relativity.- Accelerated Motion in Special Relativity.- Realization of Continuous Groups.- Riemannian Manifolds.- The Free Particle 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 Field.- The Electromagnetic Field.- Gravitational Waves.- Spinning Bodies.- Weak Field Gravitational Wave.- Stationary Spherically (or Rotationally) Symmetric Metric.- Kerr Metric Subcalculations.- Friedmann Cosmology.- Dynamical Equations and Diffeomorphisms.

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From the reviews: DeWitt's lectures cover interesting and detailed material which is rarely found in other text books. It is a book for the advanced reader. (Norbert Dragon, General Relativity and Gravitation, Vol. 44, 2012)

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