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050 00 $aQC178$b.F49 1995
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100 1 $aFeynman, Richard P.$q(Richard Phillips),$d1918-1988.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50002729
245 10 $aFeynman lectures on gravitation /$cRichard P. Feynman, [based on notes by] Fernando B. Morinigo, William G. Wagner ; edited by Brian Hatfield ; with a foreword by John Preskill and Kip S. Thorne.
260 $aReading, Mass. :$bAddison-Wesley,$c[1995], ©1995.
300 $axl, 232 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 221-228) and index.
520 $aThe Feynman Lectures on Gravitation are based on notes prepared during a course on gravitational physics that Richard Feynman taught at Caltech during the 1962-63 academic year. For several years prior to these lectures, Feynman thought long and hard about the fundamental problems in gravitational physics, yet he published very little.
520 8 $aThese lectures represent a useful record of his viewpoints and some of his insights into gravity and its application to cosmology, superstars, wormholes, and gravitational waves at that particular time. The lectures also contain a number of fascinating digressions and asides on the foundations of physics and other issues.
520 8 $a.
520 8 $aCharacteristically, Feynman took an untraditional non-geometric approach to gravitation and general relativity based on the underlying quantum aspects of gravity. Hence, these lectures contain a unique pedagogical account of the development of Einstein's general relativity as the inevitable result of the demand for a self-consistent theory of a massless spin-2 field (the graviton) coupled to the energy-momentum tensor of matter.
520 8 $aThis approach also demonstrates the intimate and fundamental connection between gauge invariance and the Principle of Equivalence.
650 0 $aGravitation.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056558
650 0 $aQuantum gravity.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85109463
700 1 $aMorínigo, Fernando B.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2010042051
700 1 $aWagner, William G.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94019357
700 1 $aHatfield, Brian.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88032999
852 00 $bmat$hQC178$i.F49 1995