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Ray Optics, Fermat's Principle, and Applications to General Relativity
Volker Perlick
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Hardback. This text on relativistic ray optics covers such topics as: light propagation in linear dielectric and permeable media; ray-optical structures on arbitrary manifolds; ray-optical structures on Lorentzian manifolds; and variational principles for rays. Series: Lecture Notes in Physics Monographs (Closed). Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDE; PHJ; PHVB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 509.
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All kind ofinformationfrom distant celestialbodies comestous intheform of radiation. Inmost the of electromagnetic cases thisradiation propagation be can as a reasonable in described, terms of This is approximation, rays. truenot inthe but also inthe radio only ofthe electro opticalrange range Forthis the of reason laws areoffundamental magneticspectrum. optics ray for importance and astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology. to According arethe of general relativity, light light likegeodesics a rays Lorentzianmetric whichthe is described. how by spacetimegeometry This, is true as as the under the ever, only long light are rays freelypropagating influence ofthe fieldwhich is coded in the only gravitational spacetime ge If ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Series
Lecture Notes in Physics Monographs (Closed)
Number of Pages
222
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783540668985
SKU
V9783540668985
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