| Description |
xii, 257 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), portraits (some color), charts (some color) ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Scientific American Library series ; no. 31 |
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Scientific American Library series ; no. 31.
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| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Great men, great ideas -- From fall to float -- Interval : revelation that all of space is ours -- Boomeranging through the Earth -- Tides : the grip of spacetime on mass -- The boundary of a boundary : where the action is -- From potter's wheel to space geometry -- Picturing space and spacetime around a center of mass -- Stones in flight and planets in orbit -- Gravity waves -- Black holes -- A farewell look at gravity. |
| Subject |
Gravity.
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Space and time.
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| Indexed Term |
Gravitation |
| ISBN |
0716750163 |
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9780716750161 |
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