Feynman Lectures on Gravitation

Description

The Feynman Lectures on Gravitation are based on notes prepared during a course on gravitational physics that Richard Feynman taught at Caltech during the 1962-63 academic year. For several years prior to these lectures, Feynman thought long and hard about the fundamental problems in gravitational physics, yet he published very little. These lectures represent a useful record of his viewpoints and some of his insights into gravity and its application to cosmology, superstars, wormholes, and gravitational waves at that particular time. The lectures also contain a number of fascinating digressions and asides on the foundations of physics and other issues. . Characteristically, Feynman took an untraditional non-geometric approach to gravitation and general relativity based on the underlying quantum aspects of gravity. Hence, these lectures contain a unique pedagogical account of the development of Einstein's general relativity as the inevitable result of the demand for a self-consistent theory of a massless spin-2 field (the graviton) coupled to the energy-momentum tensor of matter. This approach also demonstrates the intimate and fundamental connection between gauge invariance and the Principle of Equivalence.

Description

Based on notes prepared during a course on gravitational physics that Richard Feynman taught at Caltech during the 1962-63 academic year.

First Sentence

In this series of lectures we shall discuss gravitation in all its aspects.

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Other Editions

• Feynman Lectures on GravitationPaperbackWestview Press2002-07-15
• Lectures on gravitationAddison-Wesley1995-01-01
• Feynman lectures on gravitationAddison-Wesley1995-01-01
• Feynman Lectures on GravitationPenguin Books, Limited1999-01-01
• Feynman Lectures on GravitationTaylor & Francis Group2018-01-01
• Feynman Lectures on GravitationTaylor & Francis Group2018-01-01