Theory and Experiment in Gravitational Physics
Theory and Experiment in Gravitational Physics
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USDThis is a revised edition of a classic and highly regarded book, first published in 1981, describing the status of theory and experiment in general relativity. This book offers a comprehensive survey of the intensive research and testing of general relativity that has been conducted over the past three decades. As a foundation for this survey, the book first introduces the important principles of gravitation theory, developing the mathematical formalism that is necessary to carry out specific computations so that theoretical predictions can be compared with experimental findings. It provides an up-to-date survey of experimental results, not only for Einstein's "classical" tests, such as deflection of light and the perihelion of Mercury, but also for new solar-system tests, never envisioned by Einstein, that make use of the high-precision space and laboratory technologies of today. The book goes on to explore new arenas for testing gravitation theory in black holes, neutron stars, gravitational waves and cosmology. Included is a systematic account of the remarkable "binary pulsar" PSR 1913+16, which has yielded precise confirmation of the existence of gravitational waves. A new chapter has been added to cover recent important experimental tests, and the bibliography has been brought up to date.
- Revised edition of classic text on status of experimental gravity
- Author is leading researcher in this subject
- The revised edition is completely up-to-date
Reviews & endorsements
"...consolidates much of the literature on experimental gravity and should be invaluable to researchers in gravitation..." Science
"...a concise and meaty book...and a most useful reference work...researchers and serious students of gravitation should be pleased with it..." Nature
"...the experienced reader will benefit from this book. I can definitely recommend it as an extensive source of valuable information..." Tsvi Piran, Physics Today
"...[Clifford Will] has succeeded in combining an encyclopedic knowledge of gravitational experiments and observations with a style of presentation that makes his book not only invaluable to specialists in gravitational research, but also accessible to interested researchers in other fields who would like to know the current state of affairs in this discipline...by amassing in one place and in a readable form all of the evidence that leads to this conclusion, Will has performed an invaluable service and demonstrated beyond doubt that general relativity is a physical theory on the same footing as any of our other great fundamental theories." James Anderson, American Journal of Physics
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May 2012Adobe eBook Reader
9781139243162
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25 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Einstein equivalence principle and the foundations of gravitational theory
- 3. Gravitation as a geometric phenomenon
- 4. The parametrized post-Newtonian formalism
- 5. Post-Newtonian limits of alternative metric theories of gravitation
- 6. Equations of motion in the PPN formalism
- 7. The classical tests
- 8. Tests of the strong equivalence principle
- 9. Other tests of post-Newtonian gravity
- 10. Gravitational radiation as a tool for testing relativistic gravity
- 11. Structure and motion of compact objects in alternative theories of gravity
- 12. The binary pulsar
- 13. Cosmological tests
- 14. An update
- References
- References to chapter 14
- Index.
