Reference Frames & Gravitomagnetism
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Published: July 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9789810246310
Subjects: Astronomy, Space & Time; Astrophysics; Mathematics for scientists & engineers; Relativity physics; Science; Astrophysics & Space Science; Cosmology (Astronomy); Theoretical Physics; Relativity; Science/Mathematics; Physics; Cosmology; Astronomy - General; Applied
First sentence: While it is difficult to associate mental images with concepts on a general spacetime manifold, by making a local identification with Minkowski space-time, we can transfer our space-plus-time experience in this simpler context, already upgraded to special relativity from Newtonian physics, to a general curved spacetime through a spacetime splitting scheme.