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Gravitational Wave for a pedestrian

Popular Physics 2016-05-09 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The physics of gravitational wave and its detection in the recent experiment by the LIGO collaboration is discussed in simple terms for a general audience. The main article is devoid of any mathematics, but an appendix is included for inquisitive readers where essential mathematics for general theory of relativity and gravitational waves are given.

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@article{arxiv.1605.00761,
  title  = {Gravitational Wave for a pedestrian},
  author = {A K Chaudhuri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.00761},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

Few mistakes are corrected. 19 pages, 8 figures

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