For the Love of Physics
Title | For the Love of Physics PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Lewin |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 145160713X |
Original publication and copyright date: 2011.
“To” Her Distant Observer
Title | “To” Her Distant Observer PDF eBook |
Author | Noël Burch |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Cracking the Einstein Code
Title | Cracking the Einstein Code PDF eBook |
Author | Fulvio Melia |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 151 |
Release | 2009-10-15 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0226519546 |
Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity describes the effect of gravitation on the shape of space and the flow of time. But for more than four decades after its publication, the theory remained largely a curiosity for scientists; however accurate it seemed, Einstein’s mathematical code—represented by six interlocking equations—was one of the most difficult to crack in all of science. That is, until a twenty-nine-year-old Cambridge graduate solved the great riddle in 1963. Roy Kerr’s solution emerged coincidentally with the discovery of black holes that same year and provided fertile testing ground—at long last—for general relativity. Today, scientists routinely cite the Kerr solution, but even among specialists, few know the story of how Kerr cracked Einstein’s code. Fulvio Melia here offers an eyewitness account of the events leading up to Kerr’s great discovery. Cracking the Einstein Code vividly describes how luminaries such as Karl Schwarzschild, David Hilbert, and Emmy Noether set the stage for the Kerr solution; how Kerr came to make his breakthrough; and how scientists such as Roger Penrose, Kip Thorne, and Stephen Hawking used the accomplishment to refine and expand modern astronomy and physics. Today more than 300 million supermassive black holes are suspected of anchoring their host galaxies across the cosmos, and the Kerr solution is what astronomers and astrophysicists use to describe much of their behavior. By unmasking the history behind the search for a real world solution to Einstein’s field equations, Melia offers a first-hand account of an important but untold story. Sometimes dramatic, often exhilarating, but always attuned to the human element, Cracking the Einstein Code is ultimately a showcase of how important science gets done.
The Vulnerable Observer
Title | The Vulnerable Observer PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth Behar |
Publisher | Beacon Press |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2014-10-28 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0807046485 |
Eloquently interweaving ethnography and memoir, award-winning anthropologist Ruth Behar offers a new theory and practice for humanistic anthropology. She proposes an anthropology that is lived and written in a personal voice. She does so in the hope that it will lead us toward greater depth of understanding and feeling, not only in contemporary anthropology, but in all acts of witnessing.
The Reign of Relativity
Title | The Reign of Relativity PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Burdon Haldane Haldane (Viscount) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 462 |
Release | 1921 |
Genre | First philosophy |
ISBN |
Gravity
Title | Gravity PDF eBook |
Author | James B. Hartle |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 610 |
Release | 2021-06-24 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1009051334 |
Renowned relativist James Hartle's fluent and accessible physics-first introduction to general relativity uses minimal new mathematics and begins with the essential physical applications. This ground-breaking text, reissued by Cambridge University Press, makes this fundamental theory accessible to virtually all physics majors.
Modern General Relativity
Title | Modern General Relativity PDF eBook |
Author | M. W. Guidry |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 625 |
Release | 2019-01-03 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1107197899 |
Introduces the physics of general relativity in relation to modern topics such as gamma-ray bursts, black holes, and gravitational waves.