Gravitation and inertia
By: Ignazio Ciufolini and John Archibald Wheeler.
Contributors: Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-
Series: Princeton series in physics
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 498
Subjects: Geometrodynamics; General relativity (Physics); Gravitation; Inertia (Mechanics)
Description: Einstein's standard and battle-tested geometric theory of gravity - spacetime tells mass how to move and mass tells spacetime how to curve - is expounded in this book by Ignazio Ciufolini and John Wheeler. They give special attention to the theory's observational checks and to two of its consequences: the predicted existence of gravitomagnetism and the origin of inertia (local inertial frames) in Einstein's general relativity - inertia here arises from mass there.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.