Feynman Lectures On GravitationCRC Press, 4 may 2018 - 280 páginas The Feynman Lectures on Gravitation are based on notes prepared during a course on gravitational physics that Richard Feynman taught at Caltech during the 1962-63 academic year. For several years prior to these lectures, Feynman thought long and hard about the fundamental problems in gravitational physics, yet he published very little. These lectures represent a useful record of his viewpoints and some of his insights into gravity and its application to cosmology, superstars, wormholes, and gravitational waves at that particular time. The lectures also contain a number of fascinating digressions and asides on the foundations of physics and other issues.Characteristically, Feynman took an untraditional non-geometric approach to gravitation and general relativity based on the underlying quantum aspects of gravity. Hence, these lectures contain a unique pedagogical account of the development of Einstein's general theory of relativity as the inevitable result of the demand for a self-consistent theory of a massless spin-2 field (the graviton) coupled to the energy-momentum tensor of matter. This approach also demonstrates the intimate and fundamental connection between gauge invariance and the principle of equivalence. |
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Lecture 1 | 1 |
Lecture 2 | 17 |
Lecture 3 | 29 |
Lecture 4 | 47 |
Lecture 5 | 63 |
Lecture 6 | 77 |
Lecture 7 | 89 |
Lecture 8 | 107 |
Lecture 11 | 151 |
Lecture 12 | 163 |
Lecture 13 | 177 |
Lecture 14 | 189 |
Lecture 15 | 199 |
Lecture 16 | 207 |
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