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Relativity and Modern Physics / George David Birkhoff.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Birkhoff, George David, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physik.
- Relativité générale (physique).
- Relativity (Physics).
- Local Subjects:
- Relativity (Physics).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (294 p.)
- Edition:
- 2. Aufl. Reprint 2013
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- No detailed description available for "Relativity and Modern Physics".
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- CHAPTER I. CLASSICAL PHYSICS
- CHAPTER II. INTRODUCTION TO SPACE-TIME
- CHAPTER III. THE ISOMETRIC ASSUMPTION
- CHAPTER IV. ISOTROPIC AND AEOLOTROPIC SPACE-TIME
- CHAPTER V. DYNAMICS OF A LINEAR SET OF PARTICLES
- CHAPTER VI. VECTORS AND TENSORS IN TWO DIMENSIONS
- CHAPTER VII. ONE-DIMENSIONAL HYDRODYNAMICS
- CHAPTER VIII. TENSOR ANALYSIS
- CHAPTER IX. GRAVITATION IN TWO-DIMENSIONAL SPACE-TIME
- CHAPTER X. FOUR-DIMENSIONAL SPACE-TIME
- CHAPTER XI. DYNAMICS, HYDRODYNAMICS, ELASTICITY
- CHAPTER XII. ELECTROMAGNETISM
- CHAPTER XIII. LINEAR TENSOR EQUATIONS
- CHAPTER XIV. THE GRAVITATIONAL FIELD
- CHAPTER XV. THE SOLAR GRAVITATIONAL FIELD
- CHAPTER XVI. APPLICATIONS IN THE SOLAR FIELD
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-674-73448-3
- OCLC:
- 1013942696
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