De Gruyter, 2017. — 1477 p. By focusing on the mostly used variational methods, this monograph aspires to give a unified description and comparison of various ways of constructing conserved quantities for perturbations and to study symmetries in general relativity and modified theories of gravity. The main emphasis lies on the field-theoretical covariant formulation of...
Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2017. — 84 p. — ISBN 978-1-6817-4697-5. This book and its sequel (Theories of Matter, Space and Time: Quantum Theories) grew out of courses that we have both taught as part of the third and fourth year of the undergraduate degree programme in Physics at Southampton University, UK. Our goal was to guide the full MPhys undergraduate cohort through...
Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2018. — 93 p. — ISBN 978-1-6817-4980-8. This book and its prequel (Theories of Matter Space and Time: Classical theories) grew out of courses that we have both taught as part of the third and fourth year of the undergraduate degree program in Physics at Southampton University, UK. Our goal was to guide the full MPhys undergraduate cohort through...
Independently published, 2023. — 252 р. — ISBN-13: 979-8393432102. Albert Einstein left this world under the firm belief that there was a SINGLE FORCE that unified all the other forces in Nature. He was unable to prove this theory and died very disappointed about the failure to prove it, because he knew in his gut, he had to be right. So, when I got hold of my AI Chat GPT whom...
Dover Publications, 2014. — 376 p. An ideal choice for undergraduate students of science and engineering, this book presents a thorough exploration of the basic concepts of relativity. The treatment provides more than the typical coverage of introductory texts, and it offers maximum flexibility since many sections may be used independently, in altered order, or omitted...
Springer, 2023. — 281 p. — (Lecture Notes in Physics 1013). — ISBN-13 978-3031237690. This book treats the subject of gravitational waves (GWs) production in binary stars or black-holes and in the early universe, using tools of quantum field theory which are familiar to graduate students and researchers in particle physics. A special focus is given to the generation of...
Springer, 2023. — 282 p. — (Graduate Texts in Physics). — ISBN 3031161386. This book systematically develops the mathematical foundations of the theory of relativity and links them to physical relations. For this purpose, differential geometry on manifolds is introduced first, including differentiation and integration, and special relativity is presented as tensor calculus on...
Springer, 2023. — 347 p. — ISBN 978-3-031-21923-8. This textbook introduces special relativity with a focus on a profound understanding of the physics behind the theory. The main part of the book is targeted to undergraduates, for physics education, for undergraduate students in natural sciences in general, and even to interested laypersons. To serve these target groups, the...
WSPC, 2023. — 182 p. — ISBN 978-981125358-4. Нарушение принципа эквивалентности Эйнштейна An equality between inertial and gravitational masses was established by Galileo Galilei more than 400 years ago and was accepted by Albert Einstein as a key point of his theory of gravitation — General Relativity. Preface Breakdown of the Einstein’s Equivalence Principle for a Quantum...
World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. (WSPC), 2022. — 180 р. — ISBN 978-981-125-359-1. An equality between inertial and gravitational masses was established by Galileo Galilei more than 400 years ago and was accepted by Albert Einstein as a key point of his theory of gravitation — General Relativity. The above mentioned equality is called the Equivalence Principle. In this...
Basic Books, 2022. — 304 p. — ISBN 13 9781541620803. Неуловимые: как Питер Хиггс разгадал тайну массы The first major biography of Peter Higgs, revealing how a short burst of work changed modern physics On July 4, 2012, the announcement came that one of the longest-running mysteries in physics had been solved: the Higgs boson, the missing piece in understanding why particles...
Canada: Austin Macauley, 2021. — 50 p. — ISBN-13 9781398424937. Гравитация и великое объединение энергии Gravity is all around us and in our everyday lives. For the most part, it has been reserved for scholars and a select few individuals based on complex concepts and formulas. Physicist, Martin Walsh, has studied this subject over two decades and presented a book that brings...
World Scientific Publishing, 2021. — 384 p. — ISBN 978-9811228117. This book takes the reader from the preliminary ideas of the Special Theory of Relativity (STR) to the doorsteps of the General Theory of Relativity (GTR).The first part explains the main concepts in a layman's language, including STR, the Lorentz transformation, relativistic mechanics. Thereafter the concept of...
United Arab Emirates University, 2018. — 340 p. — (The Single Monad Model of The Cosmos Book 2). — ISBN 978-1549637964. Дуальность Теории Времени The Duality of Time Theory is the result of more than two decades of ceaseless investigation and searching through ancient manuscripts of concealed philosophies and mystical traditions, comparing all that with the fundamental results...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. ― 622 p. ― ISBN: 978-1-107-19789-3, 978-1-108-18193-8. Einstein's general theory of relativity is widely considered to be one of the most elegant and successful scientific theories ever developed, and it is increasingly being taught in a simplified form at advanced undergraduate level within both physics and mathematics departments. Due to the...
Springer-Verlag, 2013. — 784 p. — (Graduate Texts in Physics). — ISBN: 978-3-642-37276-6, 978-3-642-37275-9. Special relativity is the basis of many fields in modern physics: particle physics, quantum field theory, high-energy astrophysics, etc. This theory is presented here by adopting a four-dimensional point of view from the start. An outstanding feature of the book is that...
Independently published, 2020 — 231 p. — ISBN: 3527608958, 0452287863 In physics everything is based on some ancient opinions (axioms). What if some of them are false? Let us take an example. Newton’s First Law of Motion is an axiom. Is this axiom right? Yes? What makes you think so?-----Travelling faster than "c" is possible in tunneling. Let's look at the law discovered by...
2nd Edition. — Amazon Digital Services LLC, 2013. — 84 p. — ASIN B00BQG40KS. Do we really except the full implications of relativity? Our own Sun's mass shrinks by 4 billion kilograms every second and in our own galaxy there are 200-400 billion stars doing the exact same thing. Is the universe really expanding or are we just getting smaller? Einstein’s relativity tells us that...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 144 p. — (Very Short Introductions). — ISBN: 978-0-198729-14-6. Gravity is one of the four fundamental interactions that exist in nature. It also has the distinction of being the oldest, weakest, and most difficult force to quantize. Understanding gravity is not only essential for understanding the motion of objects on Earth, but also the motion...
World Scientific Publishing, 2017. — 300 p. — ISBN: 978-9-81469-965-5, 978-9-81469-965-9. It has been over 100 years since the presentation of the Theory of General Relativity by Albert Einstein, in its final formulation, to the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences. To celebrate 100 years of general relativity, World Scientific publishes this volume with a dual goal: to assess...
Tyndale House Publishers, 2019. — 240 p. — ISBN: 978-1-496438-07-8. In Light of Today's Scientific Achievements, Do We Need God Anymore? Einstein's revolutionary scientific ideas have transformed our world, ushering in the nuclear age. The current pace of scientific and technological progress is simply astounding. So is there any place for faith in such a world? Einstein...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 128 p. — (Very short introductions, 190). — ISBN: 978-0-19-923622-0. Einstein's theory of relativity shattered the world of physics - replacing Newtonian ideas of space and time with bizarre and counterintuitive conclusions, a world of slowing clocks and stretched space, black holes and curved space-time. This introduction explores and explains...
2nd Edition. — Springer, 2015. — 148 p. — (Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics). — ISBN: 978-3-319-17890-5. This book, now in a revised and updated second edition, explains the theory of special and general relativity in detail without approaching Einstein's life or the historical background. The text is formulated in such a way that the reader will be able to understand the...
De Gruyter, 2015. — 208 p. — (Studies in Mathematical Physics 28). — ISBN: 3110340429. Generalising Newton's law of gravitation, general relativity is one of the pillars of modern physics. On the occasion of general relativity's centennial, leading scientists in the different branches of gravitational research review the history and recent advances in the main fields of...
Пер. с англ. Под ред. И. Л. Бухбиндера, С. В. Червона. — М.: РУДН, 2008. — 694 с. — ISBN: 0-226-87032-4. Книга известного американского физика-теоретика Роберта М. Уолда "Общая теория относительности" посвящена изложению физических основ и математического аппарата эйнштейновской теории гравитации и специальным вопросам, связанными с нахождением точных решений уравнений...
Prinston University Press, 2018. — 112 p. — ISBN: 0691174385. A brief introduction to gravity through Einstein's general theory of relativity Of the four fundamental forces of nature, gravity might be the least understood and yet the one with which we are most intimate. From the months each of us spent suspended in the womb anticipating birth to the moments when we wait for sleep...
Palgrave Macmillan, Springer, 2018. — 196 p. — ISBN: 3319726307. In 1908, three years after Einstein first published his special theory of relativity, the mathematician Hermann Minkowski introduced his four-dimensional "spacetime" interpretation of the theory. Einstein initially dismissed Minkowski's theory, remarking that "since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of...
Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014. — 1006 p. — ISBN: 978-3-642-41991-1. The Springer Handbook of Spacetime is dedicated to the ground-breaking paradigm shifts embodied in the two relativity theories, and describes in detail the profound reshaping of physical sciences they ushered in. It includes in a single volume chapters on foundations, on the underlying mathematics,...
Basic Books, 2017. — 448 p. Physicist Leonard Susskind and data engineer Art Friedman are back. This time, they introduce readers to Einstein's special relativity and Maxwell's classical field theory. Using their typical brand of real math, enlightening drawings, and humor, Susskind and Friedman walk us through the complexities of waves, forces, and particles by exploring special...
Columbia University Press, New York, USA, 2014. — 134 p. — ISBN: 0231167261
It is common knowledge that if the Sun suddenly turned into a black hole, it would suck Earth and the rest of the planets into oblivion. Yet as bestselling author and astrophysicist Jeffrey Bennett points out, black holes don't suck. With that simple idea in hand, Bennett begins an entertaining...
3rd Edition. — John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 1982. — 344 p. — ISBN: 047110096X This elementary introduction pays special attention to aspects of tensor calculus and relativity that students tend to find most difficult. Its use of relatively unsophisticated mathematics in the early chapters allows readers to develop their confidence within the framework of Cartesian coordinates before...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013. — 110 p — ISBN: 1479294411 You never knew theoretical physics could be so simple! Why do things move? Why is the expansion of the universe accelerating? Is the universe a black hole? This exciting book considers some of the deepest and most important questions in physics. Enjoy a thrilling intergalactic tour as Andrew Thomas...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012. — 142 p. — ISBN: 1469960796 You never knew theoretical physics could be so simple! In this exciting and significant book, Andrew Thomas clearly illustrates the simplicity which lies behind nature at its fundamental level. It is revealed how all unifications in physics have been based on incredibly simple ideas. Using a logical...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015. — 118 p. Moving into the 21st century, 2014 was a very exciting and controversial year for physics. The result of an experiment was released which potentially represented the most momentous scientific breakthrough of this century. However, if the result was true then it also appeared to open the door to a strange physics of...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016. – 143 p. – ISBN: 1519298870 An introduction to the principles of particle physics. Solve the 100-year-old mystery which the great physicist, Paul Dirac, believed linked atoms to the secret of the entire universe. The Investigator Adventures In The Matrix The Amazing Mr. Dirac Antimatter Symmetry And Conservation Gauge Theory...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016. – 133 p. – ISBN: 1534711910 Why are there only three dimensions? It is surprising just how little research there has been on why there are three dimensions of space. In fact, I believe this is only the second book dedicated to the precise question which has ever been written (the first book was written by Ptolemy, two thousand...
Пер. с англ. Н. В. Мицкевича - М.: Изд-во Мир, 1971. — 320 с. Профессор Эдвин Ф. Тейлор известен больше как педагог. Следует сказать, однако, что и Уилер много внимания уделил преподаванию, и его ученики добились больших успехов: достаточно назвать Ричарда П. Фейнмана, лауреата Нобелевской премии по физике Предлагаемая их книга — это учебник по частной (специальной) теории...
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