Gravity : a very short introduction / Timothy Clifton.
Tipo de material: TextoIdioma: Inglés Series Very short introductions ; 512. | Very short introductions ; 512.Fecha de copyright: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press ; 2017Edición: First editionDescripción: 103 pages : illustrations ; 18 cmISBN:- 0198729146
- 9780198729143
- 530 23
- QC178 .C458 2017
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Colección general | Biblioteca Yachay Tech | 530 C6395g 2017 (Navegar estantería(Abre debajo)) | Ej. 1 | Disponible | 005754 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-100) and index.
1. From Newton to Einstein -- 2. Gravity in the Solar system -- 3. Extrasolar tests of gravity -- 4. Gravitational waves -- 5. Cosmology -- 6. Frontiers of gravitational physics.
Timothy Clifton looks at the development of our understanding of gravity since the early observations of Kepler and Newtonian theory. He discusses Einstein's theory of gravity, which now supplants Newton's, showing how it allows us to understand why the frequency of light changes as it passes through a gravitational field, why GPS satellites need their clocks corrected as they orbit the Earth, and why the orbits of distant neutron stars speed up. Today, almost 100 years after Einstein published his theory of gravity, we have even detected the waves of gravitational radiation that he predicted. Clifton concludes by considering the testing and application of general relativity in astrophysics and cosmology, and looks at dark energy and efforts such as string theory to combine gravity with quantum mechanics.
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