After a century of successes, physicists still feel the need to probe the limits of the validity of theories based …
In one of the most surprising and important findings in cosmology in the century, astronomers recently discovered that the unierse …
This new edition of Classical Mechanics, aimed at undergraduate physics and engineering students, presents in a user-friendly style an authoritative …
This new edition of Classical Mechanics, aimed at undergraduate physics and engineering students, presents ina user-friendly style an authoritative approach …
After reviewing the basic concept of general relativity, this introduction discusses its mathematical background, including the necessary tools of tensor …
All elementary particles feel gravitation the same. More specifically, particles with different masses experience a different gravitational force, but in …
From the Commentary by Robert Geroch (The corresponding section of Einstein’s text can be found below the comment. Please note …
This volume introduces the application of two-component spinor calculus and fibre-bundle theory to complex general relativity. A review of basic …
Six lectures, all regarding the most revolutionary discovery in twentieth-century physics: Einstein's Theory of Relativity. No one--not even Einstein himself--explained …
No twentieth-century American scientist is better known to a wider spectrum of people than Richard P. Feynman (1918-1988) -- physicist, …
Stephen Hawking’s phenomenal, multimillion-copy bestseller, A Brief History of Time , introduced the ideas of this brilliant theoretical physicist to …
This republication of Albert Einstein's introduction to his theory of relativity, written for the layperson, includes commentary by Robert Geroch …
The Nobel Prize-winning scientist’s presentation of his landmark theory According to Einstein himself, this book is intended "to give an …
This book is an introduction to the theories of Special and General Relativity. The target audience are physicists, engineers and …
Here are the 11 papers that forged the general and special theories of relativity: seven papers by Einstein, plus two …
In 1905, Albert Einstein offered a revolutionary theory - special relativity - to explain some of the most troubling problems …
Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity provides a lucid and thoroughly modern introduction to general relativity. With an …
This book, originally published in 1922, consisted of the text of Dr. Einstein's Stafford Little Lectures, delivered in May 1921 …
This richly annotated facsimile edition of "The Foundation of General Relativity" introduces a new generation of readers to Albert Einstein's …
In 1921, five years after the appearance of his comprehensive paper on general relativity and twelve years before he left …
First published in 1922 and based on lectures delivered in May 1921, Albert Einstein’s The Meaning of Relativity offered an …
The aim of this groundbreaking new text is to bring general relativity into the undergraduate curriculum and make this fundamental …
General Relativity is a beautiful geometric theory, simple in its mathematical formulation but leading to numerous consequences with striking physical …
Thoroughly revised and updated, this self-contained textbook provides a pedagogical introduction to relativity. It covers the most important features of …