Gravity books

A comprehensive introduction and overview of the physical processes behind the compact objects. This book presents...  Read More >>

"Contains the worked out lectures given at the 36th Saas-Fee Advanced Course ""First Light in the Universe"" by...  Read More >>

Many of the agonies which had to be gone through in the rst edition have disappeared and, to many people’s amazement,...  Read More >>

While stellar structure and evolution are understood in general terms, we lack important physical ingredients, despite...  Read More >>

Based on a series of university lectures on nonrelativistic quantum mechanics, this textbook covers a wide range...  Read More >>

This book explores the role of singularities in general relativity (GR): The theory predicts that when a sufficient...  Read More >>

Nominated as an outstanding thesis by Professor Robert Crittenden of the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation...  Read More >>

These proceedings collect the selected contributions of participants of the First Karl Schwarzschild Meeting on...  Read More >>

This book, now in its second edition, provides an introductory course on theoretical particle physics with the aim...  Read More >>

This book introduces the basic concepts of particle cosmology and covers all the main aspects of the Big Bang Model...  Read More >>

Opening with an overview of the pioneering work of Prof. Gabriele Venziano on string theory and nonperturbative...  Read More >>

An elegant and entertaining account explaining the strange history of the (non-existent) Planet Vulcan, which confounded...  Read More >>

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The basic idea of DGIT is just to accept a simple assumption: Gravity is not limited to a central force, but also...  Read More >>

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Albert Einstein determined that gravitation is the curvature of space in proximity to any celestial body of mass....  Read More >>

This book describes the physical processes which underlie the force of gravity. It lists several limitations of...  Read More >>

Throughout the past few decades, the standard answer to the problem of low productivity in small private forests...  Read More >>

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Ever since 1911, the Solvay Conferences have shaped modern physics. The format is quite different from other conferences...  Read More >>

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This book, written for a general readership, reviews and explains the three-body problem in historical context reaching...  Read More >>

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