Bibliograph

Gravity, a very short introduction, Timothy Clifton

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Gravity, a very short introduction, Timothy Clifton

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-100) and index

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illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Gravity

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

950476061

Responsibility statement

Timothy Clifton

Series statement

Very short introductions, 512

Sub title

a very short introduction

Summary

Timothy Clifton looks at the development of our understanding of gravity since the early observations of Kepler and Newtonian theory. He discusses Einstein's theory of gravity, which now supplants Newton's, showing how it allows us to understand why the frequency of light changes as it passes through a gravitational field, why GPS satellites need their clocks corrected as they orbit the Earth, and why the orbits of distant neutron stars speed up. Today, almost 100 years after Einstein published his theory of gravity, we have even detected the waves of gravitational radiation that he predicted. Clifton concludes by considering the testing and application of general relativity in astrophysics and cosmology, and looks at dark energy and efforts such as string theory to combine gravity with quantum mechanics

Table Of Contents

Preface -- 1. From Newton to Einstein -- 2. Gravity in the Solar system -- 3. Extrasolar tests of gravity -- 4. Gravitational waves -- 5. Cosmology -- 6. Frontiers of gravitational physics -- Epilogue

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