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ویرایش: نویسندگان: Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, John Archibald Wheeler سری: ISBN (شابک) : 9780691177793, 2017950565 ناشر: Princeton University Press سال نشر: 2017 تعداد صفحات: 1333 زبان: English فرمت فایل : PDF (درصورت درخواست کاربر به PDF، EPUB یا AZW3 تبدیل می شود) حجم فایل: 678 Mb
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توجه داشته باشید کتاب جاذبه نسخه زبان اصلی می باشد و کتاب ترجمه شده به فارسی نمی باشد. وبسایت اینترنشنال لایبرری ارائه دهنده کتاب های زبان اصلی می باشد و هیچ گونه کتاب ترجمه شده یا نوشته شده به فارسی را ارائه نمی دهد.
فیزیک فضازمان -- فیزیک در فضای زمان تخت -- ریاضیات فضازمان منحنی -- نظریه هندسی گرانش انیشتین -- ستارگان نسبیتی -- جهان -- فروپاشی گرانشی و سیاهچاله ها -- امواج گرانشی -- آزمون های تجربی نسبیت عام -- مرزها
Spacetime physics -- Physics in flat spacetime -- The mathematics of curved spacetime -- Einstein's geometric theory of gravity -- Relativistic stars -- The universe -- Gravitational collapse and black holes -- Gravitational waves -- Experimental tests of general relativity -- Frontiers
GEOMETRODYNAMICS IN BRIEF CURVATURE OF A CYLINDER SPRING TIDE VS. NEAP TIDE KEPLER ENCAPSULATED FOUNDATIONS OF SPECIAL RELATIVITY EXERCISE LOWERING INDEX TO GET THE 1-FORM CORRESPONDING TO A VECTOR RAISING INDEX TO RECOVER THE VECTOR VARIED ROUTES TO THE SCALAR PRODUCT ENERGY AND VELOCITY FROM 4-MOMENTUM TEMPERATURE GRADIENT BOOST IN AN ARBITRARY DIRECTION THE ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EXERCISE TRANSFORMATION LAW FOR COMPONENTS OF A TENSOR RAISING AND LOWERING INDICES TENSOR PRODUCT BASIS TENSORS Faraday MACHINERY AT WORK MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS CONTRACTION IS FRAME-INDEPENDENT DIFFERENTIATION MORE DIFFERENTIATION SYMMETRIES SYMMETRIZATION AND ANTISYMMETRIZATION LEVI-CIVITA TENSOR DUALS GEOMETRIC VERSIONS OF MAXWELL EQUATIONS CHARGE CONSERVATION VECTOR POTENTIAL DIVERGENCE OF ELECTROMAGNETIC STRESS-ENERGY TENSOR ELECTROMAGNETISM AND DIFFERENTIAL FORMS GENERIC LOCAL ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EXPRESSED IN SIMPLEST FORM FREEDOM OF CHOICE OF 1-FORMS IN CANONICAL REPRESENTATION OF GENERIC LOCAL FIELD A CLOSED OR CURL-FREE 1-FORM IS A GRADIENT CANONICAL EXPRESSION FOR A ROTATION-FREE 1-FORM FORMS ENDOWED WITH POLAR SINGULARITIES THE FIELD OF THE OSCILLATING DIPOLE THE 2-FORM MACHINERY TRANSLATED INTO TENSOR MACHINERY PANCAKING THE COULOMB FIELD COMPUTATION OF SURFACE INTEGRALS WHITAKER'S CALUMOID, OR, THE LIFE OF A LOOP DIFFERENTIAL FORMS AND HAMilTONIAN MECHANICS SYMMETRY OPERATIONS AS TENSORS STRESS-ENERGY TENSOR AND CONSERVATION LAWS EXERCISE CHARGE CONSERVATION PARTICLE PRODUCTION INERTIAL MASS PER UNIT VOLUME DETERMINANTS AND JACOBIANS CENTROIDS AND SIZES ACCELERATED OBSERVERS A TRIP TO THE GALACTIC NUCLEUS ROCKET PAYLOAD TWIN PARADOX RADAR SPEED INDICATOR RADAR DISTANCE INDICATOR CLOCK RATES VERSUS COORDINATE TIME IN ACCELERATED COORDINATES ACCELERATION OF LATTICE POINTS IN ACCELERATED COORDINATES OBSERVER WITH ROTATING TETRAD THOMAS PRECESSION INCOMPATIBILITY OF GRAVITY AND SPECIAL RELATIVITY SCALAR GRAVITATIONAL FIELD, VECTOR GRAVITATIONAL FIELD, SYMMETRIC TENSOR GRAVITATIONAL FIELD, h =h GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE PRACTICE WITH TENSOR ALGEBRA COMMUTATORS COMPONENTS OF LEVI-CIVITA TENSOR IN NONORTHONORMAL FRAME PRACTICE IN WRITING COMPONENTS OF GRADIENT A SHEET OF PAPER IN POLAR COORDINATES SPHERICAL COORDINATES IN FLAT SPACETIME SYMMETRIES OF CONNECTION COEFFICIENTS NEW DEFINITION OF T COMPARED WITH OLD DEFINITION CHAIN RULE FOR u T COVARIANT DERIVATIVE COMMUTES WITH CONTRACTION ALGEBRAIC PROPERTIES OF CONNECTION COEFFICIENTS FOR 1-FORM BASIS ``T'' CORRECTION TERMS FOR T; METRIC IS COVARIANTLY CONSTANT CONNECTION COEFFICIENTS IN TERMS OF METRIC SOME USEFUL FORMULAS IN COORDINATE FRAMES DIFFERENTIAL TOPOLOGY COMPONENT MANIPULATIONS COMPONENTS OF GRADIENT, AND DUALITY OF COORDINATE BASES PRACTICE MANIPULATING TANGENT VECTORS MORE PRACTICE WITH TANGENT VECTORS PICTURE OF BASIS 1-FORMS INDUCED BY COORDINATES PRACTICE WITH DUAL BASES PRACTICE WITH COMMUTATORS ANGULAR MOMENTUM OPERATORS COMMUTATORS AND COORDINATE-INDUCED BASES COMPONENTS OF COMMUTATOR IN NON-COORDINATE BASIS LIE DERIVATIVE A CHIP OFF THE OLD BLOCK ROTATION GROUP: GENERATORS ROTATION GROUP: STRUCTURE CONSTANTS AFFINE GEOMETRY: GEODESICS, PARALLEL TRANSPORT, AND COVARIANT DERIVATIVE ADDITIVITY OF COVARIANT DIFFERENTIATION CHAIN RULE FOR COVARIANT DIFFERENTIATION ANOTHER CHAIN RULE STILL ANOTHER CHAIN RULE ONE MORE CHAIN RULE GEODESIC EQUATION COMPUTATION OF CONNECTION COEFFICIENTS CONNECTION FOR 1-FORM BASIS SYMMETRY OF CONNECTION COEFFICIENTS COMPONENTS OF GRADIENT DIVERGENCE VERIFICATION OF CHAIN RULE TRANSFORMATION LAW FOR CONNECTION COEFFICIENTS POLAR COORDINATES IN FLAT 2-DIMENSIONAL SPACE COMPONENTS OF PARALLEL-TRANSPORT LAW GEODESICS IN POLAR COORDINATES ROTATION GROUP: GEODESICS AND CONNECTION COEFFICIENTS GEODESIC DEVIATION AND SPACETIME CURVATURE [A ,B]C DEPENDS ON DERIVATIVES OF C PROOF THAT RIEMANN IS A TENSOR COMPONENTS OF RIEMANN IN COORDINATE BASIS COMPONENTS OF RIEMANN IN NONCOORDINATE BASIS COPLANARITY OF CLOSED CURVES SYMMETRIES OF Riemann GEODESIC DEVIATION MEASURES ALL CURVATURE COMPONENTS GEODESIC DEVIATION IN GORY DETAIL RIEMANN NORMAL COORDINATES IN GENERAL BIANCHI IDENTITIES CURVATURE OPERATOR ACTS ON 1-FORMS ROTATION GROUP: RIEMANN CURVATURE NEWTONIAN GRAVITY IN THE LANGUAGE OF CURVED SPACETIME RIEMANN CURVATURE OF NEWTONIAN SPACETIME NEWTONIAN FIELD EQUATION GEODESIC DEVIATION DERIVED CONNECTION COEFFICIENTS FOR ROTATING, ACCELERATING COORDINATES EINSTEIN'S ELEVATOR GEODESIC DEVIATION ABOVE THE EARTH FROM NEWTON TO CARTAN FROM CARTAN TO NEWTON SPATIAL METRIC ALLOWED BY OTHER AXIOMS SPACETIME METRIC FORBIDDEN BY OTHER AXIOMS RIEMANNIAN GEOMETRY: METRIC AS FOUNDATION OF ALL TEST WHETHER SPACETIME IS LOCAL LORENTZ PRACTICE WITH METRIC MATHEMATICAL REPRESENTATION OF LOCAL LORENTZ FRAME CONSEQUENCES OF COMPATIBILITY BETWEEN g AND ONCE TIMELIKE, ALWAYS TIMELIKE SPACELIKE GEODESICS HAVE EXTREMAL LENGTH METRIC TENSOR MEASURED BY LIGHT SIGNALS AND FREE PARTICLES RIEMANN ANTISYMMETRIC IN FIRST TWO INDICES NUMBER OF INDEPENDENT COMPONENTS OF RIEMANN RIEMANN SYMMETRIC IN EXCHANGE OF PAIRS; COMPLETELY ANTISYMMETRIC PART VANISHES DOUBLE DUAL OF RIEMANN: EINSTEIN RICCI AND EINSTEIN RELATED THE WEYL CONFORMAL TENSOR INERTIAL AND CORIOLIS FORCES ROTATION GROUP: METRIC CALCULATION OF CURVATURE CURVATURE OF A TWO-DIMENSIONAL HYPERBOLOID RIEMANNIAN CURVATURE EXPRESSIBLE IN TERMS OF RICCI CURVATURE IN TWO AND THREE DIMENSIONS CURVATURE OF 3-SPHERE IN ORTHONORMAL FRAME EINSTEIN EQUATIONS FOR THE CLOSED FRIEDMANN UNIVERSE CALCULATED BY USING THE GEODESIC LAGRANGIAN METHOD EXTERIOR DERIVATIVE OF A PRODUCT OF FORMS RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EXTERIOR DERIVATIVE AND COMMUTATOR CHRISTOFFEL FORMULA DERIVED FROM CONNECTION FORMS RIEMANN-CHRISTOFFEL CURVATURE FORMULA RELATED TO CURVATURE FORMS MATRIX NOTATION FOR REVIEW OF CARTAN STRUCTURE EQUATIONS TRANSFORMATION RULES FOR CONNECTION FORMS IN COMPACT NOTATION SPACE IS FLAT IF THE CURVATURE VANISHES SYSTEMATIC COMPUTATION OF CONNECTION FORMS IN ORTHONORMAL FRAMES SCHWARZSCHILD CURVATURE FORMS MATRIX DISPLAY OF THE RIEMANN-TENSOR COMPONENTS RIEMANN MATRIX WITH VANISHING EINSTEIN TENSOR COMPUTATION OF CURVATURE FOR A PULSATING OR COLLAPSING STAR BIANCHI IDENTITY IN dR = 0 FORM LOCAL CONSERVATION OF ENERGY AND MOMENTUM: d[*]T = 0 MEANS T = 0 BIANCHI IDENTITIES AND THE BOUNDARY OF A BOUNDARY THE BOUNDARY OF THE BOUNDARY OF A 4-SIMPLEX THE BEL-ROBINSON TENSOR EQUIVALENCE PRINCIPLE AND MEASUREMENT OF GRAVITATIONAL FIELD HYDRODYNAMICS IN A WEAK GRAVITATIONAL FIELD WORLD LINES OF PHOTONS NONCOM MUTATION OF COVARIANT DERIVATIVES PRECESSION OF THE EQUINOXES GRAVITY GRADIOMETER HOW MASS-ENERGY GENERATES CURVATURE UNIQUENESS OF THE EINSTEIN TENSOR NO TENSOR CONSTRUCT ABLE FROM FIRST DERIVATIVES OF METRIC RIEMANN AS THE ONLY TENSOR CONSTRUCTABLE FROM, AND LINEAR IN SECOND DERIVATIVES OF METRIC UNIQUENESS OF THE EINSTEIN TENSOR MAGNITUDE OF COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT RAMIFICATIONS OF CORRESPONDENCE FOR GRAVITY IN A PASSIVE ROLE CORRESPONDENCE IN THE LANGUAGE OF CURVED SPACETIME EINSTEIN-FOKKER REDUCES TO NORDSTROM WEAK GRAVITATIONAL FIELDS GAUGE INVARIANCE OF THE RIEMANN CURVATURE JUSTIFICATION OF LORENTZ GAUGE EXTERNAL FIELD OF A STATIC, SPHERICAL BODY SPACETIME CURVATURE FOR A PLANE GRAVITATIONAL WAVE A PRIMITIVE GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE DETECTOR BENDING OF LIGHT BY THE SUN GRAVITATIONAL REDSHIFT MASS AND ANGULAR MOMENTUM OF A GRAVITATING SYSTEM DERIVATION OF METRIC FAR OUTSIDE A WEAKLY GRAVITATING BODY GYROSCOPE PRECESSION GRAVITATIONAL FIELD FAR FROM A STATIONARY, FUllY RELATIVISTIC SOURCE CONSERVATION LAWS FOR 4-MOMENTUM AND ANGULAR MOMENTUM FLUX INTEGRAL FOR TOTAL MASS-ENERGY IN LINEARIZED THEORY FLUX INTEGRAL FOR ANGULAR MOMENTUM IN LINEARIZED THEORY FLUX INTEGRALS FOR AN ARBITRARY STATIONARY SOURCE FORM OF HL-L FAR FROM SOURCE TOTAL MASS-ENERGY IN NEWTONIAN LIMIT SIMPLE FEATURES OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD AND ITS STRESS-ENERGY TENSOR THE STRESS-ENERGY TENSOR DETERMINES THE ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EXCEPT FOR ITS COMPLEXION THE MAXWELL EQUATIONS CANNOT BE DERIVED FROM THE LAW OF CONSERVATION OF STRESS-ENERGY WHEN (EB) = 0 OVER AN EXTENDED REGION EQUATION OF MOTION OF A SCALAR FIELD AS CONSEQUENCE OF THE EINSTEIN FIELD EQUATION VARIATIONAL PRINCIPLE AND INITIAL-VALUE DATA VARIATION OF THE DETERMINANT OF THE METRIC TENSOR STRESS-ENERGY TENSOR FOR A SCALAR FIELD FARADAY-MAXWELL STRESS-ENERGY TENSOR SCALAR CURVATURE INVARIANT IN TERMS OF AREA DEFICIT EXTRINSIC CURVATURE TENSOR FOR SLICE OF FRIEDMANN GEOMETRY EVALUATION OF R(ei, ej)n EVALUATION OF THE COMMUTATOR [ej,n] LIE DERIVATIVE OF A TENSOR EXPRESSION FOR DYNAMIC COMPONENTS OF THE CURVATURE TENSOR EXPRESSION OF [(4)]Rinin IN TERMS OF EXTRINSIC CURVATURE, PLUS A COVARIANT DIVERGENCE FIRST EXPLOITATION OF THE ADM VARIATIONAL PRINCIPLE FOR THE ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD SECOND EXPLOITATION OF THE ADM VARIATIONAL PRINCIPLE FOR THE ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD FARADAY-MAXWELL SOURCE TERM IN THE DYNAMIC EQUATIONS OF GENERAL RELATIVITY THE CHOICE OF DOESN'T MATTER THE CHOICE OF SLICING OF SPACETIME DOESN'T MATTER POOR MAN'S WAY TO DO COSMOLOGY THIN-SANDWICH VARIATIONAL PRINCIPLE FOR THE SCALAR POTENTIAL IN ELECTRODYNAMICS THIN-SANDWICH VARIATIONAL PRINCIPLE FOR THE LAPSE AND SHIFT FUNCTIONS IN GEOMETRODYNAMICS CONDENSED THIN-SANDWICH VARIATIONAL PRINCIPLE POOR MAN'S WAY TO SCHWARZSCHILD GEOMETRY WHY THE WEYL CONFORMAL CURVATURE TENSOR VANISHES YORK'S CURVATURE PULLING THE POYNTING FLUX VECTOR ``OUT OF THE AIR'' THE EXTREMAL ACTION ASSOCIATED WITH THE HILBERT ACTION PRINCIPLE DEPENDS ON CONFORMAL 3-GEOMETRY AND EXTRINSIC TIME EQUATION OF MOTION FOR A SURFACE LAYER THIN SHELLS OF DUST SPHERICAL SHELL OF DUST THERMODYNAMICS, HYDRODYNAMICS, ELECTRODYNAMICS, GEOMETRIC OPTICS, AND KINETIC THEORY DIVERGENCE OF FLOW LINES PRODUCES VOLUME CHANGES EQUATION OF CONTINUITY CHEMICAL POTENTIAL FOR IDEAL FERMI GAS PROJECTION TENSORS PRESSURE GRADIENT IN STATIONARY GRAVITATIONAL FIELD EXPANSION, ROTATION, AND SHEAR HYDRODYNAMICS WITH VISCOSITY AND HEAT FLOW THE VECTOR POTENTIAL FOR ELECTRODYNAMICS CHARGE CONSERVATION IN THE PRESENCE OF GRAVITY INTERACTING ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD AND CHARGED MATTER ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD AND STRESS ENERGY POLARIZATION THE AREA OF A BUNDLE OF RAYS FOCUSING THEOREM INVERSE SQUARE LAW FOR FLUX BRIGHTNESS OF THE SUN BLACK BODY RADIATION STRESS-ENERGY TENSOR KINETIC THEORY FOR NONIDENTICAL PARTICLES SPHERICAL STARS ISOTROPIC COORDINATES AND NEWTONIAN LIMIT PROPER REFERENCE FRAMES OF FLUID ELEMENTS LAW OF LOCAL ENERGY-MOMENTUM CONSERVATION EINSTEIN CURVATURE TENSOR TOTAL NUMBER OF BARYONS IN A STAR BUOYANT FORCE IN A STAR GRAVITATIONAL ENERGY OF A NEWTONIAN STAR NEWTONIAN STARS OF UNIFORM DENSITY GOOD BEHAVIOR OF r EXERCISES CENTER OF STAR OCCUPIED BY IDEAL FERMI GAS AT EXTREME RELATIVISTIC LIMIT PARTICLE MOTION IN SCHWARZSCHILD GEOMETRY CONSTANT OF MOTION OBTAINED FROM HAMIlTON'S PRINCIPLE SUPER-HAMilTONIAN FORMALISM FOR GEODESIC MOTION KILLING VECTORS IN FLAT SPACETIME POISSON BRACKET AS KEY TO CONSTANTS OF MOTION COMMUTATOR OF Killing VECTORS IS A Killing VECTOR EIGENVALUE PROBLEM FOR KIllING VECTORS RADIAL VELOCITY OF A TEST PARTICLE ROTATIONAL KILLING VECTORS FOR SCHWARZSCHILD GEOMETRY CONSERVATION OF TOTAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM OF A TEST PARTICLE SELECTING EQUATION BY SELECTING WHAT IS VARIED MOTION DERIVED FROM SUPER-HAMILTONIAN REDSHIFT BY TIMED PULSES QUALITATIVE FORMS OF PARTICLE ORBITS IMPACT PARAMETER TIME TO FALL TO r = 2M PERIASTRON SHIFT FOR NEARLY CIRCULAR ORBITS ANGULAR MOTION DURING INFALL MAXIMUM AND MINIMUM OF EFFECTIVE POTENTIAL KEPLER LAW VALID FOR CIRCULAR ORBITS HAMILTON-JACOBI FUNCTION DEFLECTION BY GRAVITY CONTRASTED WITH DEFLECTION BY ELECTRIC FORCE CAPTURE BY A BLACK HOLE QUALITATIVE FORMS OF PHOTON ORBITS LIGHT DEFLECTION CAPTURE OF LIGHT BY A BLACK HOLE RETURN OF LIGHT FROM A BLACK HOLE ISOTROPIC STAR CLUSTER SELF-SIMILAR CLUSTER CLUSTER WITH CIRCULAR ORBITS STELLAR PULSATIONS DRAGGING OF INERTIAL FRAMES BY A SLOWLY ROTATING STAR IDEALIZED COSMOLOGIES ISOTROPY IMPLIES HOMOGENEITY SYNCHRONOUS COORDINATES IN GENERAL ARBITRARINESS IN THE EXPANSION FACTOR UNIQUENESS OF METRIC FOR 3-SURFACE OF CONSTANT CURVATURE METRIC FOR 3-SURFACE OF CONSTANT CURVATURE PROPERTIES OF THE 3-SURFACES ISOTROPY IMPLIES HOMOGENEITY MATTER-DOMINATED AND RADIATION-DOMINATED REGIMES Of FRIEDMANN COSMOLOGY TRANSITION FROM RADIATION-DOMINATED REGIME TO MATTER-DOMINATED REGIME THE EXPANDING AND RECONTRACTING SPHERICAL WAVE FRONT ON SEEING THE BACK OF ONE'S HEAD DO THE CONSERVATION LAWS FORBID THE PRODUCTION OF PARTICLE-ANTIPARTICLE PAIRS OUT OF EMPTY SPACE BY TIDAL GRAVITATION FORCES? TURN-AROUND UNIVERSE MODEL NEGLECTING MATTER DENSITY ``HESITATION'' UNIVERSE UNIVERSE OPAQUE TO BLACK-BODY RADIATION AT A NONSINGULAR PAST TURN-AROUND REQUIRES IMPOSSIBLE PARAMETERS EVOLUTION OF THE UNIVERSE INTO ITS PRESENT STATE UNCERTAINTY IN EVOLUTION PRESENT STATE AND FUTURE EVOLUTION OF THE UNIVERSE IMPLICATIONS OF PARAMETER VALUES ALTERNATIVE DERIVATION OF REDSHIFT REDSHIFT OF PARTICLE DE BROGLIE WAVELENGTHS m(z) DERIVED USING STATISTICAL PHYSICS DOPPLER SHIFT VERSUS COSMOLOGICAL REDSHIFT SOURCE COUNTS COSMIC-RAY DENSITY FRACTION OF SKY COVERED BY GALAXIES SCHWARZSCHILD GEOMETRY TIDAL FORCES ON IN FALLING EXPLORER NONRADIAL LIGHT CONES THE CRACK OF DOOM HOW LONG TO LIVE? EDDINGTON-FINKELSTEIN AND KRUSKAL-SZEKERES COMPARED ANOTHER COORDINATE SYSTEM SCHWARZSCHILD METRIC IN ISOTROPIC COORDINATES REISSNER-NORDSTROM GEOMETRY GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE UNIQUENESS OF REISSNER-NORDSTROM GEOMETRY REDSHIFTS DURING COLLAPSE EMBEDDING DIAGRAMS AND PHOTON PROPAGATION FOR COLLAPSING STAR MATCH OF FRIEDMANN INTERIOR TO SCHWARZSCHILD EXTERIOR STARS THAT COLLAPSE FROM INFINITY GENERAL SPHERICAL COLLAPSE: METRIC IN COMOVING COORDINATES ADIABATIC SPHERICAL COLLAPSE: EQUATIONS OF EVOLUTION ANALYTIC SOLUTIONS FOR PRESSURE-FREE COLLAPSE COLLAPSE WITH UNIFORM DENSITY PRICE'S THEOREM FOR A SCALAR FIELD NEWMAN-PENROSE ``CONSTANTS'' BLACK HOLES KERR DESCRIPTION OF KILLING VECTORS OBSERVATIONS OF ANGULAR VELOCITY LOCALLY NONROTATING OBSERVERS ORTHONORMAL FRAMES OF LOCALLY NONROTATING OBSERVERS LOCAL LIGHT CONES SUPERHAMllTONIAN FOR CHARGED-PARTICLE MOTION HAMILTON-JACOBI DERIVATION OF EQUATIONS OF MOTION KERR-SCHILD COORDINATES NULL GENERATORS OF HORIZON ANGULAR MOMENTUM VECTOR FOR IN FALLING PARTICLE IRREDUCIBLE MASS IS IRREDUCIBLE SURFACE AREA OF A BLACK HOLE ANGULAR VELOCITY OF A BLACK HOLE SEPARATION OF VARIABLES FOR WAVE EQUATIONS GLOBAL TECHNIQUES, HORIZONS, AND SINGULARITY THEOREMS FLAT SPACETIME IN , , , COORDINATES SCHWARZSCHILD SPACETIME IN , , , COORDINATES REISSNER-NORDSTROM SPACETIME A BLACK HOLE CAN NEVER BIFURCATE PROPAGATION OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVES TRANSFORMATION OF PLANE WAVE TO TT GAUGE LIMITATION ON EXISTENCE OF TT GAUGE A CYLINDRICAL GRAVITATIONAL WAVE NON-TT PARTS OF METRIC PERTURBATION ALTERNATIVE CALCULATION OF RELATIVE OSCILLATIONS ROTATIONAL TRANSFORMATIONS FOR POLARIZATION STATES ELLIPTICAL POLARIZATION GLOBALLY WELL-BEHAVED COORDINATES FOR PLANE WAVE GEODESIC COMPLETENESS FOR PLANE-WAVE MANIFOLD PLANE WAVE WITH TWO POLARIZATIONS PRESENT CONNECTION COEFFICIENTS AND CURVATURE TENSORS FOR A PERTURBED METRIC GAUGE TRANSFORMATIONS IN A CURVED BACKGROUND TRANSVERSE-TRACELESS GAUGE FOR GRAVITATIONAL WAVES PROPAGATING IN A CURVED BACKGROUND BRILL-HARTLE AVERAGE GEOMETRIC OPTICS GRAVITONS GRAVITATIONAL DEFLECTION OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVES GAUGE INVARIANCE OF T(GW) T(GW) EXPRESSED AS THE AVERAGE OF A STRESS-ENERGY PSEUDOTENSOR SHORTWAVE APPROXIMATION FROM A VARIATIONAL VIEWPOINT GENERATION OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVES GRAVITATIONAL WAVES FROM ROTATING BEAM GRAVITATIONAL WAVES FROM MATTER FALLING INTO A BLACK HOLE GRAVITATIONAL WAVES FROM A VIBRATING NEUTRON STAR PULSAR SLOWDOWN ENERGY AND ANGULAR MOMENTUM LOSSES DUE TO RADIATION REACTION GRAVITATIONAL WAVES FROM BINARY STAR SYSTEMS MAGNITUDE OF t PROOF THAT THE TRANVERSE TRACELESS PARTS OF ENERGY AND ANGULAR MOMENTUM RADIATED DETECTION OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVES GENERAL PLANE WAVE IN TT GAUGE TEST-PARTICLE MOTION IN PROPER REFERENCE FRAME CONNECTION COEFFICIENTS IN PROPER REFERENCE FRAME WHY THE a x ? ORIENTATION OF POLARIZATION DIAGRAM RELATIVE MOTION OF FREELY FALLING BODIES AS A DETECTOR OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVES EARTH-MOON SEPARATION AS A GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE DETECTOR POWER RERADIATED CROSS SECTIONS CALCULATED BY DETAILED BALANCE NORMAL-MODE ANALYSIS OF VIBRATING, RESONANT DETECTORS SPECTRUM OF ENERGY RADIATED BY A SOURCE PATTERNS OF EMISSION AND ABSORPTION MULTIMODE DETECTOR CROSS SECTION OF IDEALIZED MODEL OF EARTH FOR ABSORPTION OF GRAVITATIONAL RADIATION OTHER THEORIES OF GRAVITY AND POST-NEWTONIAN APPROXIMATION ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE IN GRAVITATIONALLY BOUND SYSTEMS PATTERN OF TERMS IN POST-NEWTONIAN EXPANSION NEWTONIAN APPROXIMATION A USEFUL FORMULA STRESS TENSOR FOR NEWTONIAN GRAVITATIONAL FIELD NEWTONIAN VIRIAL THEOREMS PULSATION FREQUENCY FOR NEWTONIAN STAR ABSENCE OF ``METRIC-GENERATES-METRIC'' TERMS IN POST-NEWTONIAN LIMIT REMOVAL OF TERM FROM g00 VERIFICATION OF FORMS OF POST-NEWTONIAN CORRECTIONS TRANSFORMATION TO MOVING FRAME THE TRANSFORMATION BETWEEN COMOVING FRAME AND PPN FRAME EQUATIONS OF MOTION POST-NEWTONIAN APPROXIMATION TO GENERAL RELATIVITY MANY-BODY SYSTEM IN POST-NEWTONIAN LIMIT OF GENERAL RELATIVITY SOLAR-SYSTEM EXPERIMENTS PPN METRIC FOR IDEALIZED SUN TRAJECTORY OF LIGHT RAY IN SUN'S GRAVITATIONAL FIELD FERMAT'S PRINCIPLE DERIVATION OF PERIHELION SHIFT IN PPN FORMALISM PERIHELION SHIFT FOR OBLATE SUN PRECESSIONAL ANGULAR VELOCITY OFF-DIAGONAL TERMS IN METRIC ABOUT THE EARTH SPIN-CURVATURE COUPLING CAVENDISH CONSTANT FOR IDEALIZED SUN CAVENDISH CONSTANT FOR ANY BODY SPINORS ELEMENTARY FEATURES OF THE ROTATION MATRIX ROTATION MATRIX HAS UNIT DETERMINANT MORE PROPERTIES OF THE ROTATION MATRIX SUPERSPACE ARENA FOR THE DYNAMICS OF GEOMETRY THE ACTION PRINCIPLE FOR A FREE PARTICLE IN NON RELATIVISTIC MECHANICS THE ACTION FOR THE HARMONIC OSCILLATOR QUANTUM PROPAGATOR FOR HARMONIC OSCILLATOR QUANTUM PROPAGATOR FOR FREE ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD HAMILTON-JACOBI FORMULATION OF MAXWELL ELECTRODYNAMICS