Gravity From The Ground Up
Bernard Schutz, 2003, 462 page hardcover\
Easily the best book I have read on gravity.
Chapters are as follows:
1 Gravity on Earth: the inescapable force
2 And then came Newton: gravity takes center stage
3 Satellites: what goes up doesn't always come down
4 The Solar System: a triumph for Newtonian gravity
5 Tides and tidal forces: the real signature of gravity
6 Interplanetary travel: the cosmic roller-coaster
7 Atmospheres: keeping planets covered
8 Gravity in the Sun: keeping the heat on
9 Reaching for the stars: the emptiness of outer space
10 The colors of stars: why they are black (bodies)
11 Stars at work: factories for the Universe
12 Birth to death: the life cycle of the stars
13 Binary stars: tidal forces on a huge scale
14 Galaxies: atoms in the Universe
15 Physics at speed: Einstein stands on Galileo's shoulders
16 Relating to Einstein: logic and experiment in relativity
17 Spacetime geometry: finding out what is not relative
18 Einstein's gravity: Einstein climbs onto Newton's shoulders
19 Einstein's recipe: fashioning the geometry of gravity
20 Neutron stars: laboratories of strong gravity
21 Black holes: gravity's one-way street
22 Gravitational waves: gravity speaks
23 Gravitational lenses: bringing the Universe into focus
24 Cosmology: the study of everything
25 The Big Bang: the seed from which we grew
26 Einstein's Universe: the geometry of cosmology
27 Ask the Universe: cosmic questions at the frontiers of gravity
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Jeff