عنوان

The lighter side of gravity /

(Number (ISBN

0716713438

(Number (ISBN

0716713446

(Number (ISBN

9780716713432

(Number (ISBN

9780716713449

Title Proper

The lighter side of gravity /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Jayant V. Narlikar.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

San Francisco :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

W.H. Freeman,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©1982.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

viii, 194 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

23 cm

Text of Note

Includes index.

Text of Note

Why things move -- Restless universe -- From aristotle to galileo -- Laws of motion -- Some concepts in dynamics -- Why things move -- From the falling apple to apollo -- Why did the apple fall? -- What is the law of gravitation? -- Motion of planets -- Newtonian gravity and motion in the solar system -- Who first thought of gravitation? -- Successes of the law of gravitation -- How strong is gravity? -- Mass of the earth -- Mass and weight -- Gravity barriers -- Escape speed -- How strong is gravity? -- Fusion reactors in space -- Fusion -- Genie and the sun -- Kelvin-helmholtz hypothesis -- Sun as a fusion reactor -- Gravity as the controlling agent -- Stellar catastrophes -- Living in curved spacetime -- Is newton's law perfect? -- Strange behavior of mercury -- From newton to einstein -- General theory of relativity -- Non-euclidean geometries -- Do we live in curved spacetime? -- Is time also curved -- Ocean tides and binary stars -- When newton and einstein agree -- Tidal force -- Tides in the oceans -- Experiment of tweddledum and tweedledee -- Tidal disruption -- Gravitational radiation -- Strange world of black holes -- Black hole in history and astronomy -- How are black holes formed? -- Gravitational collapse -- Gravitational redshift -- Event horizon -- Black hole has no hair! -- Spacetime singularity -- Black holes as cosmic energy machines -- Physics of black holes -- Kerr black hole -- Penrose mechanism -- Cygnus x-1 -- Supermassive black holes -- Do black holes exist? -- Expanding universe -- Static universe in newton's theory -- Einstein universe -- Universe is not static -- Big bang -- Is the universe open or closed? -- Was there a big bang? -- Many faces of gravity.

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Gravity.

Gravité

Astrodinamica.

Gravitatie.

Gravitation.

Gravitationstheorie

Gravitationstheorie.

Gravité.

Gravity.

Number

531.5

Number

531.51

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Class number

Class number

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System Code

System Code

Narlikar, Jayant Vishnu,1938-

Date of Transaction

20200824083633.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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