Authors:Neil Ashby, David F. Bartlett, Walker Wyss,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: general, gravitation, relativity, conference, proceedings, international
Number of Pages: 524
Published: 1990-10-26
List price: $200.00
ISBN-10: 0521384281
ISBN-13: 9780521384285

This volume contains the proceedings of the twelfth triannual International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation, the premier conference for presentation and discussion of new ideas in relativity and cosmology. The volume will contain the invited talks as well as short reports on the parallel workshops that took place at the meeting. It will be essential reading for all research workers in relativity, cosmology and astrophysics.

Author:
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: general, gravitation, relativity, conference, proceedings, international
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 1987-09-25
List price: $64.95
ISBN-10: 0521332966
ISBN-13: 9780521332965

Author: Canadian Conference on General Relativity and Rela
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Keywords: astrophysics, fields, institute, communications, relativistic, relativity, canadian, conference, general, sixth
Number of Pages: 373
Published: 1996-12-01
List price: $114.00
ISBN-10: 0821805231
ISBN-13: 9780821805237

This volume is the refereed proceedings of the Sixth Canadian Conference on General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics held in May 1995 at the University of New Brunswick. The book includes invited talks and contributed talks and posters including state-of-the-art reviews of many of the most recent important developments in gravitational physics. This book would serve as a good supplement to standard texts on the topic. Features: Review articles in key areas: black holes, numerical relativity, etc. Contributions covering most of gravitational physics. Useful articles for students who wis

Author: J. Rice
Publisher: Budge Pre
Keywords: relativity
Number of Pages: 404
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $31.45
ISBN-10: 1406748919
ISBN-13: 9781406748918

RELATIVITY A SYSTEMATIC TREATMENT OF EINSTEINS THEORY bY J. RJ C.. E, M. A. SENIOR LECTURER IN PHYSICS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL. LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO. 39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON, E. G. 4 NEW YORK, TORONTO BOMBAY, CALCUTTA AND MADRAS 1923 PREFACE. WITHIN the past twenty years a revolution has taken place in the mental attitude which the physicist main tains towards the concepts which have been invented in the past in order to reach those broad generalisations which are the proud possession of his science. The demand on the part of the layman to know just what this revolution portends ha

Author: W. V. Quine
Publisher: Columbia University Pre
Keywords: relativity, ontological
Number of Pages: 165
Published: 1977-04-15
List price: $32.50
ISBN-10: 0231083572
ISBN-13: 9780231083577

This volume consists of the first of the John Dewey Lectures delivered under the auspices of Columbia University’s Philosophy Department as well as other essays by the author. Intended to clarify the meaning of the philosophical doctrines propounded by W. V. Quine in the essays included herein are intimately related and concern themselves with three philosophical preoccupations: the nature of meaning, the meaning of existence and the nature of natural knowledge.

Author: Arthur W. Conway
Publisher: Higgins Pre
Keywords: relativity
Number of Pages: 52
Published: 2008-02-29
List price: $26.45
ISBN-10: 1408648490
ISBN-13: 9781408648490

CONTENTS PAGE CHAPTER I. CHAITEK 11. CHAPTER IV. IINKO. SKI S R .- SSFORRI. TIOS - CHAPTER I EINSTEINS DEDUCTION OF FUNDAMENTAL RELATIONS The subject of Relative Motion is one which must have presented itself at a very early stage to investigators in Applied Xathematics, but we may regard it as being placed on a definite dynarnical basis by Newton. In fact, his first Law of Motion defines the absence of force in a manner which is independent of any uniform velocity of the frame of reference. When the ware theory of light became firmly established, and when a luminiferous aether was postulated

Author: T.M. Helliwell
Publisher: University Science Book
Keywords: relativity, special
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2009-04-30
List price: $48.50
ISBN-10: 1891389610
ISBN-13: 9781891389610

Explores the 20th century revolutions in physics. This title helps readers to build up physical intuition for what is going on, before presenting mathematical descriptions. It contains many applications, ten appendices, and numerous illustrations, examples and problems.