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Bryce DeWitt's Lectures on Gravitation

Edited by Steven M. Christensen

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  • Written by one of leading physicists of the 20th century
  • Treats topics not covered in any other textbooks
  • Timeless content, comprehensive coverage, numerous exercises and solutions
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 826)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Review of the Uses of Invariants in Special Relativity

    • Bryce DeWitt, Steven M. Christensen
    Pages 1-11
  3. Accelerated Motion in Special Relativity

    • Bryce DeWitt, Steven M. Christensen
    Pages 13-37
  4. Realizations of Continuous Groups

    • Bryce DeWitt, Steven M. Christensen
    Pages 39-49
  5. Riemannian Manifolds

    • Bryce DeWitt, Steven M. Christensen
    Pages 51-62
  6. The Free Particle: Geodesics

    • Bryce DeWitt, Steven M. Christensen
    Pages 63-70
  7. Weak Field Approximation. Newton’s Theory

    • Bryce DeWitt, Steven M. Christensen
    Pages 71-78
  8. Ensembles of Particles

    • Bryce DeWitt, Steven M. Christensen
    Pages 79-93
  9. Production of Gravitational Fields by Matter

    • Bryce DeWitt, Steven M. Christensen
    Pages 95-104
  10. Conservation Laws

    • Bryce DeWitt, Steven M. Christensen
    Pages 105-110
  11. Phenomenological Description of a Conservative Continuous Medium

    • Bryce DeWitt, Steven M. Christensen
    Pages 111-125
  12. Solubility of the Einstein and Matter Equations

    • Bryce DeWitt, Steven M. Christensen
    Pages 127-131
  13. Energy, Momentum and Stress in the Gravitational Field

    • Bryce DeWitt, Steven M. Christensen
    Pages 133-149
  14. Measurement of Asymptotic Fields

    • Bryce DeWitt, Steven M. Christensen
    Pages 151-159
  15. The Electromagnetic Field

    • Bryce DeWitt, Steven M. Christensen
    Pages 161-176
  16. Gravitational Waves

    • Bryce DeWitt, Steven M. Christensen
    Pages 177-217
  17. Back Matter

    Pages 219-287

About this book

Bryce DeWitt, a student of Nobel Laureate Julian Schwinger, was himself one of the towering figures in 20th century physics, particularly renowned for his seminal contributions to quantum field theory, numerical relativity and quantum gravity. In late 1971 DeWitt gave a course on gravitation at Stanford University, leaving almost 400 pages of detailed handwritten notes. Written with clarity and authority, and edited by his former student Steven Christensen, these timeless lecture notes, containing material or expositions not found in any other textbooks, are a gem to be discovered or re-discovered by anyone seriously interested in the study of gravitational physics.

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“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)

Authors, Editors and Affiliations

  • Durham, NC, USA

    Steven M. Christensen

  • Austin, USA

    Bryce DeWitt

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eBook USD 69.99
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Softcover Book USD 89.99
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