Spacetime Physics
- ISBN-10
- 071670336X
- ISBN-13
- 9780716703365
- Category
- Espace et temps
- Pages
- 208
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1966
- Publisher
- W.H. Freeman
- Authors
- John Archibald Wheeler, Edwin F. Taylor
Description
Written by two of the field's true pioneers, "Spacetime Physics" can extend and enhance coverage of specialty relativity in the classroom. This thoroughly up-to-date, highly accessible overview covers microgravity, collider accelerators, satellite probes, neutron detectors, radioastronomy, and pulsars. The chapter on general relativity with new material on gravity waves, black holes, and cosmology.
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Other editions
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- 1992
- 312 pages
- Paperback
- W H Freeman & Company
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