Ciufolini, Ignazio, 1951-

Gravitation and inertia / Ignazio Ciufolini and John Archibald Wheeler. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, �1995. - 1 online resource (xi, 498 pages) : illustrations - Princeton series in physics . - Princeton series in physics. .

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

A first tour -- Einstein geometrodynamics -- Tests of Einstein geometrodynamics -- Cosmology, standard models, and homogeneous rotating models -- The initial-value problem in Einstein geometrodynamics -- The gravitomagnetic field and its measurement -- Some highlights of the past and a summary of geometrodynamics and inertia.

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Einstein's standard and battle-tested geometric theory of gravity - spacetime tells mass how to move and mass tells spacetime how to curve - is expounded in this book by Ignazio Ciufolini and John Wheeler. They give special attention to the theory's observational checks and to two of its consequences: the predicted existence of gravitomagnetism and the origin of inertia (local inertial frames) in Einstein's general relativity - inertia here arises from mass there.


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22573/ctv3227jq JSTOR 9453458 IEEE


Geometrodynamics.
General relativity (Physics)
Gravitation.
Inertia (Mechanics)
Gravitation
G�eom�etrodynamique.
Relativit�e g�en�erale (Physique)
Gravitation.
Inertie (M�ecanique)
inertia.
SCIENCE--Energy.
SCIENCE--Mechanics--General.
SCIENCE--Physics--General.
General relativity (Physics)
Geometrodynamics.
Gravitation.
Inertia (Mechanics)
Gravitatie.
Traagheid.
G�eom�etrodynamique.
Relativit�e g�en�erale (physique)
Gravitation.
Inertie (m�ecanique)

Relativity Relatividad.


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QC173.59.G44 / C58 1995

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