Gravity from the ground up, Bernard Schutz

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Gravity from the ground up, Bernard Schutz

Statement of responsibility

Bernard Schutz

Instantiates

• Gravity from the ground up

Publication

• Cambridge | New York, Cambridge University Press, 2003

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unknown

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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online resource

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• cr

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rdacarrier

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multicolored

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text

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• txt

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Contents

• Reaching for the stars: the emptiness of outer space
• The colors of stars: why they are black (bodies)
• Stars at work: factories for the Universe
• Birth to death: the life cycle of the stars
• Binary stars: tidal forces on a huge scale
• Galaxies: atoms in the Universe
• Physics near the speed of light: Einstein stands on Galileo's shoulders
• Gravity on Earth: the inescapable force
• And then came Newton: gravity takes center stage
• Satellites: what goes up doesn't always come down
• The Solar System: a triumph for Newtonian gravity
• Tides and tidal forces: the real signature of gravity
• Interplanetary travel: the cosmic roller-coaster
• Atmospheres: keeping planets covered
• Gravity in the Sun: keeping the heat on
• Cosmology: the study of everything
• Big Bang: the seed from which we grew
• Einstein's Universe: the geometry of cosmology
• Ask the Universe: cosmic questions at the frontiers of gravity
• Appendix A.
• Useful constants: values used in this book
• Appendix B.
• Background: what you need to know before you start
• Relating to Einstein: logic and experiment in relativity
• Spacetime geometry: finding out what is not relative
• Einstein's gravity: the curvature of spacetime in the Solar System
• Einstein's recipe: fashioning the geometry of gravity
• Neutron stars: laboratories of strong gravity
• Black holes: gravity's one-way street
• Gravitational waves: gravity speaks
• Gravitational lenses: bringing the Universe into focus

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569538123

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1 online resource (xxvi, 462 pages)

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9780511251900

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• c

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(OCoLC)569538123