Experimental gravitation covers a wide and thriving area, of interest both to theoreticians and experimentalists. The timescale involved for completion of experiments has, however, meant that relatively little material is published to date.
These proceedings provide an up to date account of recent developments from respected workers in the field.
For researchers in experimental and theoretical gravitation, classical and quantum gravity, and in general relativity and cosmology.
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Physicists, astrophysicists and mathematicians working in experimental and theoretical gravitation, classical and quantum gravity, general relativity and cosmology. astrophysics.
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978-0-7503-0303-3 (9780750303033)
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Invited Papers: Experimental gravitation: what is possible and what is interesting to measure (V B Braginsky). Modern tests of the universality of free fall (E G Adelberger). Relativistic gravitaion and superconductors (J Anandan). Resonant gravitational wave detectors: a progress report (M Bassan). Fundamental noise, electromechanical transduction and their role in gravitational wave detectors (F Bordoni and M Karim). Gravitomagnetism and status of the LAGEOS III experiment (I Ciufolini). Laser Interferometer gravitational wave antenna: present status and future plan (N Kawashima). Testing the inverse square law of gravity: a new class of torsion pendulum null experiments (M W Moore et al). Post-Newtonian gravity: its theory-experiment interface (K Nordtvedt). Superconducting acceletometry: its principles and applications (H J Paik). Null test of the inverse-square law of gravity (H J Paik and M V Moody). The cosmic microwave background radiation and cosmology (R B Partridge). Radiation from fast rotating neutron stars ( F De Paolis and A Qadir). Gravitational lensing (J-P Swings). Experimental gravitation in India: progress and challenges (C S Unnikrishnan). Gravitational, rotational and topological quantum phase shifts in neutron interferometry (S A Werner). Binary pulsars and relativistic gravitation (A Wolszczan). A condensed matter gyroscope for gravitomagnetism: the gyromagnetic electron gyroscope ( M Bonaldi et al). Supernova 1987 A gravitational radiation antenna observations (J Webber). Contributed Papers: Analysis of one electrodynamic experiment on 'check-up of the principle of equivalence' (L Ya Arifov and B J Ahmedov). General relativistic effect of charge redistribution inside conductors and possibilities of its detection (L Ya Arifov and B J Ahmedov). Main concepts and theoretical grounds of Kazan project of gravitational wave detection (A B Balakin et al). A rotatable torsion balance for a new test of the equivalence principle (M A Beilby et al). Tunnelling electromachanical transducer for the detection of high frequency displacements (F Bortdoni et al). The DSX scheme as a framework for interpreting tests of General Relativity in the solar system (T Damour et al). New contraints on composition-dependent interactions with ranges down to 1 cm (J H Gundlach). STEP, a laboratory for experimental gravitation in space (Y Jafry). Novel isolation and suspension systems for laser interfererometer gravitational wave detectors (L Ju et al). Free fall of the vacuum (M Karim). Determination of the gravitational constant G by a compensated torsion balance (J Luo et al). Testing Einstein's theory of gravity by analyzing Lunar Laser Ranging data (J Muller et al). Equation of motion for rigid, spherically symmetric extended bodies (K Nordtvedt). Observable effects of the topological structure of the vacuum and micromechanical resonators (R Onofrio). Non-inertial motion in relativistic astronomical experiments (J Quamar and M Suhail). Detection sensitivity of a resonant-mass gravitational wave antenna with a parametric transducer (M E Tobar and D G Blair). Macroscopic description of gravitation (R M Zalaletdinov). Author index.
