Gravitation and Inertia
- ISBN-10
- 0691033234
- ISBN-13
- 9780691033235
- Category
- Science
- Pages
- 498
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995-08-13
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Authors
- John Archibald Wheeler, Ignazio Ciufolini
Description
This book is on Einsteinś theory of general relativity, or geometrodynamic. It may be used as an introduction to general relativity, as an introduction to the foundations and tests of gravitation and geometrodynamics, or as a monograph on the meaning and origin of inertia in Eistein theory
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