Nonlinear Gravitodynamics: The Lense-thirring Effect

Nonlinear Gravitodynamics: The Lense-thirring Effect
Author: Remo Ruffini
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 524
Release: 2003-05-08
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9814486167

This book gives a detailed, up-to-date account of the Lense-Thirring effect and its implications for physics and astrophysics. Starting from a profound intuition of Lense and Thirring in 1918, based on a simple solution to the linearized Einstein field equations, this has emerged in the past four decades as a phenomenon of extraordinary importance in cosmology, radio jets in quasars, and the physics of neutron stars and black holes, besides leading to some of the most sophisticated experiments ever performed in the space surrounding our planet. The book contains the contributions presented at the “Third William Fairbank Meeting”, which have been expanded by adding a complete set of classical and prominent contemporary papers on this subject and a general introduction by R Ruffini.

Nonlinear Gravitodynamics

Nonlinear Gravitodynamics
Author: Remo Ruffini
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 524
Release: 2003
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9812383476

This book gives a detailed, up-to-date account of the Lense-Thirring effect and its implications for physics and astrophysics. Starting from a profound intuition of Lense and Thirring in 1918, based on a simple solution to the linearized Einstein field equations, this has emerged in the past four decades as a phenomenon of extraordinary importance in cosmology, radio jets in quasars, and the physics of neutron stars and black holes, besides leading to some of the most sophisticated experiments ever performed in the space surrounding our planet. The book contains the contributions presented at the ?Third William Fairbank Meeting?, which have been expanded by adding a complete set of classical and prominent contemporary papers on this subject and a general introduction by R Ruffini.

Nonlinear Gravitodynamics

Nonlinear Gravitodynamics
Author: Remo Ruffini
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 526
Release: 2003
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9789812564818

This book gives a detailed, up-to-date account of theLenseOCoThirring effect and its implications for physics andastrophysics. Starting from a profound intuition of Lense and Thirringin 1918, based on a simple solution to the linearized Einstein fieldequations, this has emerged in the past four decades as a phenomenonof extraordinary importance in cosmology, radio jets in quasars, andthe physics of neutron stars and black holes, besides leading to someof the most sophisticated experiments ever performed in the spacesurrounding our planet."

Earth Observation with CHAMP

Earth Observation with CHAMP
Author: Christoph Reigber
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 648
Release: 2005
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9783540228042

In the summer of 2000 the German geo-research satellite CHAMP was launched into orbit. Its innovative payload arrangement and the low initial orbit allow CHAMP to simultaneously collect and almost continuously analyse precise data relating to gravity and magnetic fields at low altitude. In addition, CHAMP also measures the neutral atmosphere and ionosphere using GPS techniques. Three years after launch, more than 200 CHAMP investigators and co-investigators from all over the world met at the GeoForschungsZentrum in Potsdam to present and discuss the results derived from the extensive data sets of the mission. The main outcome of this expert meeting is summarized in this volume. The book offers a comprehensive insight into the present status of the exploitation of CHAMP data for Earth system research and practical applications in geodesy, geophysics and meteorology.

Horizons in World Physics

Horizons in World Physics
Author: Tori V. Lynch
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2004
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781594540639

This volume presents leading-edge research in physics from researchers around the world.

General Relativity and John Archibald Wheeler

General Relativity and John Archibald Wheeler
Author: Ignazio Ciufolini
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2010-06-22
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9048137357

Observational and experimental data pertaining to gravity and cosmology are changing our view of the Universe. General relativity is a fundamental key for the understanding of these observations and its theory is undergoing a continuing enhancement of its intersection with observational and experimental data. These data include direct observations and experiments carried out in our solar system, among which there are direct gravitational wave astronomy, frame dragging and tests of gravitational theories from solar system and spacecraft observations. This book explores John Archibald Wheeler's seminal and enduring contributions in relativistic astrophysics and includes: the General Theory of Relativity and Wheeler's influence; recent developments in the confrontation of relativity with experiments; the theory describing gravitational radiation, and its detection in Earth-based and space-based interferometer detectors as well as in Earth-based bar detectors; the mathematical description of the initial value problem in relativity and applications to modeling gravitational wave sources via computational relativity; the phenomenon of frame dragging and its measurement by satellite observations. All of these areas were of direct interest to Professor John A. Wheeler and were seminally influenced by his ideas.

Space, Time, and Spacetime

Space, Time, and Spacetime
Author: Vesselin Petkov
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2010-09-02
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3642135382

Dedicated to the centennial anniversary of Minkowski's discovery of spacetime, this volume contains papers, most presented at the Third International Conference on the Nature and Ontology of Spacetime, that address some of the deepest questions in physics.

Atom Optics and Space Physics

Atom Optics and Space Physics
Author: Wolfgang Schleich
Publisher: IOS Press
Total Pages: 519
Release: 2009-07-03
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1607504197

The goal of this volume is to discuss the rapidly moving field of atom optics and interferometry with all its intricate aspects ranging from fundamental physics to applications and the theory of relativity. The breathtaking success in manipulating atoms using lasers has encouraged these two so far disjunct communities to move closer together and begin collaborations. After an introduction to atom optics and Bose-Einstein condensation, the theoretical foundations of cold atom interferometers, their use to test gravity, and their implementation in laboratory measurements of the Earth rotation and of Newton's gravitational constant are discussed. Several papers discuss the characteristics of gyroscopes and interferometers as sensors for inertial forces, starting from gyroscopes based on light waves and comparing their sensitivity to those based on matter waves. The final topic is the variation of fundamental constants, a subject that during the last years has attracted a lot of attention from different communities of physics.

Gravity

Gravity
Author: Eric Poisson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 795
Release: 2014-05-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1107032865

A unique graduate textbook that develops powerful approximation methods and their applications to real-life astrophysical systems.