Author: Eduard Prugovecki
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: relativity, general, quantum, principles
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 1995-01
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 981022138X
ISBN-13: 9789810221386

This monograph explains and analyzes the principles of a quantum-geometric framework for the unification of general relativity and quantum theory. By taking advantage of recent advances in areas like fibre and superfibre bundle theory, Krein spaces, gauge fields and groups, coherent states, etc., these principles can be consistently incorporated into a framework that can justifiably be said to provide the foundations for a quantum extrapolation of general relativity. This volume aims to present this approach in a way which places as much emphasis on fundamental physical ideas as on the

Author: Albert Einstein
Publisher: Kennelly Press
Keywords: theory, general, special, relativity
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2009-05-13
List price: $27.45
ISBN-10: 1444637622
ISBN-13: 9781444637625

Originally published in 1916. PREFACE: The present book is intended, as far as possible, to give an exact insight into the theory of Relativity to those readers who, from a general scientific and philosophical point of view, are interested in the theory, but who are not conversant with the mathematical apparatus of theoretical physics. The work presumes a standard of education corresponding to that of a university matriculation examination, and, despite the shortness of the book, a fair amount of patience and force of will on the part of the reader....Many of the earliest books, particularly t

Author: John Dirk Walecka
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: relativity, general, introduction
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 2007-04-16
List price: $61.00
ISBN-10: 9812705856
ISBN-13: 9789812705853

A working knowledge of Einstein s theory of general relativity is an essential tool for every physicist today. This self-contained book is an introductory text on the subject aimed at first-year graduate students, or advanced undergraduates, in physics that assumes only a basic understanding of classical Lagrangian mechanics. The mechanics problem of a point mass constrained to move without friction on a two-dimensional surface of arbitrary shape serves as a paradigm for the development of the mathematics and physics of general relativity. After reviewing special relativity, the basic principl

Author: Richard Wolfson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: demystified, relativity, einstein, simply
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2003-11
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0393325075
ISBN-13: 9780393325072

With this reader-friendly book, it doesn’t take an Einstein to understand the theory of relativity and its remarkable consequences. In clear, understandable terms, physicist Richard Wolfson explores the ideas at the heart of relativity and shows how they lead to such seeming absurdities as time travel, curved space, black holes, and new meaning for the idea of past and future. Drawing from years of teaching modern physics to nonscientists, Wolfson explains in a lively, conversational style the simple principles underlying Einstein’s theory. Relativity, Wolfson shows, gave us

Author: John Dirk Walecka
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: relativity, general, introduction
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 2007-05-16
List price: $96.00
ISBN-10: 9812705848
ISBN-13: 9789812705846

A working knowledge of Einstein’s theory of general relativity is an essential tool for every physicist today. This self-contained book is an introductory text on the subject aimed at first-year graduate students, or advanced undergraduates, in physics that assumes only a basic understanding of classical Lagrangian mechanics. The mechanics problem of a point mass constrained to move without friction on a two-dimensional surface of arbitrary shape serves as a paradigm for the development of the mathematics and physics of general relativity. After reviewing special relativity, the basic pr

Author: Rudolf v.B. Rucker
Publisher: Dover Publications
Keywords: dimension, fourth, relativity, geometry
Number of Pages: 133
Published: 1977-06-01
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 0486234002
ISBN-13: 9780486234007

Exposition of 4th dimension, concepts of relativity as Flatland characters continue adventures. Popular, easily followed yet accurate, profound. Topics include curved space time as a higher dimension, special relativity, and shape of space-time. Accessible to lay readers but also of interest to specialists. Includes 141 illustrations.

Author: N.M.J. Woodhouse
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: mathematics, series, undergraduate, springer, relativity, general
Number of Pages: 222
Published: 2006-11-15
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1846284864
ISBN-13: 9781846284861

Based on a course given at Oxford over many years, this book is a short and concise exposition of the central ideas of general relativity. Although the original audience was made up of mathematics students, the focus is on the chain of reasoning that leads to the relativistic theory from the analysis of distance and time measurements in the presence of gravity, rather than on the underlying mathematical structure. The geometric ideas - which are central to the understanding of the nature of gravity - are introduced in parallel with the development of the theory, the emphasis being on laying ba