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SUMMARY:MAE Seminar: Relativistic Mechanics: Recent Results
DESCRIPTION:Title: Relativistic Mechanics: Recent Results \nAbstract. Modern gravitational physics is usually formulated through general relativity (GR)\, where gravitation is represented by the curvature of spacetime determined by Einstein’s field equations. Although highly successful\, this framework becomes increasingly difficult to apply to systems containing more than two gravitating bodies\, since the spacetime metric must be solved for each configuration. \nThis lecture presents recent results in relativistic mechanics based on an alternative formulation called general mechanics (GM). GM retains the predictive results of GR while organizing gravitational interactions using the familiar separation of kinematics and kinetics from classical mechanics. Central to this formulation is the concept of a gravitational frame\, which allows interactions to be treated pairwise and then combined for systems with many bodies. \nThe talk outlines the motivation for this approach\, states a parity hypothesis between GM and GR predictions\, and discusses how these recent results may open new avenues for analyzing multi-body relativistic gravitational systems relevant to advanced navigation\, satellite\, and spaceflight applications. \nSpeaker: Dr. Larry Silverberg
URL:https://mae.ncsu.edu/event/mae-seminar-relativistic-mechanics-recent-results/
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