Joseph Samuel
Articles written in Resonance – Journal of Science Education
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The Coaxial Cable How Cable TV Operators Use the Laplacian Operator
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Of Connections and Fields – I-Chern’s Mathematical Ideas in Physics
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Of Connections and Fields–II - Gauge Theories
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Impact of Riemann's Work on Physics
Volume 11 Issue 11 November 2006 pp 56-60 General Article
Riemann and Theoretical Physics
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Andal Narayanan Joseph Samuel Supurna Sinha
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Of Light and Shadows: Raychaudhuri’s Equation, the Big Bang and Black Holes
Einstein’s genius and penetrating physical intuition led to the general theory of relativity, which incorporates gravity into the geometry of spacetime. However, the theory of general relativity leads to perspectives which go far beyond the vision of its creator. Many of these insights came to light only after Einstein’s death in 1955. These developments were due to a new breed of relativists, like Penrose, Hawking and Geroch, who approached the subject with a higher degree of math-ematical sophistication than earlier workers. Some of these insights were made possible because of work by Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri (AKR) who derived an equation which turned out to be a key ingredient in the singularity theorems of general relativity. This article explains AKR’s work in elementary terms.
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