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1 online resource (xvi, 171 pages) : illustrations. |
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Physics through the 1990s
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Physics through the 1990s.
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Includes index. |
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""SOURCES OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVES�RECENT DEVELOPMENTS""""6 Search for Gravitational Waves: Opportunities ""; ""LASER INTERFEROMETER DETECTOR WITH 5-KILOMETER BASELINE""; ""BAR DETECTOR SENSITIVITY AND BANDWIDTH""; ""OBSERVATIONS WITH BAR DETECTORS""; ""PULSAR SEARCHES""; ""SPACECRAFT TRACKING""; ""SPACE INTERFEROMETERS""; ""EVENT RATES AND SOURCE CALCULATIONS""; ""COMPUTATION""; ""7 Gravitation Theory: Introduction ""; ""8 Gravitation Theory: Highlights ""; ""NEUTRON STARS""; ""GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE AND BLACK HOLES""; ""QUANTUM PARTICLE CREATION BY BLACK HOLES"" |
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""PHYSICS THROUGH THE 1990s""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""I Summary of Principal Recommendations ""; ""RECOMMENDATIONS ON GRAVITATIONAL PHYSICS""; ""Space Program in Gravitation""; ""Ground-Based Studies in Gravitation""; ""Gravitation Theory""; ""RECOMMENDATIONS ON COSMOLOGY""; ""Space Program in Cosmology""; ""Ground-Based Studies in Cosmology""; ""Growth in Cosmology Research""; ""RECOMMENDATIONS ON COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS""; ""Space Program in Cosmic Rays""; ""Ground-Based Cosmic-Ray Studies""; ""II Gravitation""; ""1 Experimental Tests of General Relativity: Introduction "" |
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""2 Experimental Tests of General Relativity: Highlights """"EQUIVALENCE PRINCIPLE, EOTVOS TO LUNAR LASER RANGING""; ""GRAVITATIONAL REDSHIFT, M�SSBAUER TO ROCKETBORNE MASER""; ""LIGHT DEFLECTION, ECLIPSES TO RADIO INTERFEROMETRY""; ""SIGNAL RETARDATION, NEWEST AND MOST ACCURATE TEST""; ""PERIHELION ADVANCE, EINSTEIN'S ONLY HANDLE""; ""CHANGING GRAVITATIONAL CONSTANT, SOLAR-SYSTEM TIME VERSUS ATOMIC TIME""; ""LABORATORY TESTING OF GRAVITATION, SEARCHING FOR THE UNEXPECTED""; ""3 Experimental Tests of General Relativity: Opportunities ""; ""TESTS FOR “MAGNETIC� GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS"" |
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""Relativity Gyroscope Experiment""""Black-Hole Jets""; ""RANGING TO THE MOON AND INNER PLANETS""; ""Radar Ranging""; ""Ranging to Planetary Landers and Orbiters""; ""Lunar Laser Ranging""; ""MEASUREMENT OF SECOND-ORDER SOLAR-SYSTEM EFFECTS""; ""GRAVITATIONAL QUADRUPOLE MOMENT OF THE SUN""; ""SYSTEMS OF COMPACT STARS""; ""4 Search for Gravitational Waves: Introduction ""; ""THEORY""; ""SOURCES""; ""DETECTORS""; ""5 Search for Gravitational Waves: Highlights ""; ""BINARY PULSAR""; ""BAR DETECTORS""; ""INTERFEROMETRIC DETECTORS""; ""PULSAR TIMING AND MILLISECOND PULSARS"" |
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""QUANTUM EFFECTS IN THE EARLY UNIVERSE""""ALTERNATIVE THEORIES""; ""EXACT SOLUTIONS OF THE EINSTEIN EQUATIONS""; ""ASYMPTOTIC PROPERTIES OF SPACE-TIME""; ""NUMERICAL RELATIVITY""; ""EMISSION OF GRAVITATIONAL RADIATION""; ""THE POSITIVE ENERGY THEOREM""; ""QUANTUM FIELD THEORY IN CURVED SPACE-TIME""; ""QUANTUM GRAVITY""; ""Supergravity""; ""Kaluza-Klein Theories""; ""9 Gravitation Theory: Opportunities ""; ""CLASSICAL GRAVITATION, SINGULARITIES, ASYMPTOTIC STRUCTURE""; ""QUANTUM GRAVITY""; ""ASTROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF NEUTRON STARS AND BLACK HOLES""; ""COMPUTATION"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Gravitation.
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Gravitation. |
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Cosmology.
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Cosmology. |
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Cosmic rays.
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Cosmic rays. |
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Electronic books.
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National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Gravitation, Cosmology, and Cosmic-Ray Physics.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gravitation, cosmology, and cosmic-ray physics. Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1986 0309035791 (OCoLC)13063491 |
| ISBN |
0309568072 (electronic book) |
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9780309568074 (electronic book) |
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0309035791 (paperback) |
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9780309035798 (paperback) |
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