Gravitational Waves [E-Book] : A New Window to the Universe / by Ajit Kembhavi, Pushpa Khare.
Gravitational waves were first predicted by Albert Einstein in 1916, a year after the development of his new theory of gravitation known as the general theory of relativity. This theory established gravitation as the curvature of space-time produced by matter and energy. To be discernible even to th...
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| Personal Name(s): | Kembhavi, Ajit. author |
| Khare, Pushpa, author | |
| Edition: |
1st edition 2020. |
| Imprint: |
Singapore :
Springer,
2020
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| Physical Description: |
XXVI, 161 pages 50 illustrations, 38 illustrations in color (online resource) |
| Note: |
englisch |
| ISBN: |
9789811557095 |
| DOI: |
10.1007/978-981-15-5709-5 |
| Subject (LOC): |
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Electromagnetic radiation: the key to understanding the universe
- 3. Gravity: Force That Governs the Universe
- 4. Gravitational Waves: the new window to the Universe
- 5. Compact Sources of Gravitational Waves
- 6. Evidence for Gravitational Waves: The Binary Pulsar
- 7. Gravitational Wave Detectors
- 8. Gravitational Wave Detection
- 9. The LIGO-India Project.