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Matzner, Richard Alfred was born on January 2, 1942 in Fort Worth, Texas, United States. Son of Alfred John and Theresa Matzner.
(An advanced physics textbook that explains the mathematic...)
An advanced physics textbook that explains the mathematical and physical concepts of mechanics and their relationship to other branches of physics. Topics covered include tensor analysis, variational principles and Lagrangians, canonical transformations and estimation techniques.
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This book investigates the propagation of waves in the presence of black holes. Astrophysical black holes may eventually be probed by these techniques. The authors emphasise intuitive physical thinking in their treatment of the techniques of analysis of scattering, but alternate this with chapters on the rigourous mathematical development of the subject. High and low energy limiting cases are treated extensively and semi-classical results are also obtained. The analogy between Newtonian gravitational scattering and Coulomb quantum mechanical scattering is fully exploited. The book introduces the concepts of scattering by considering the simplest, scalar wave case of scattering by a spherical black hole. It then develops the formalism of spin-weighted spheroidal harmonics and of plane wave representations for neutrino, electromagnetic and gravitational scattering. Research workers and graduate and advanced undergraduate students in scattering theory, wave propagation and relativity will find this a comprehensive treatment of the topic.
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Matzner, Richard Alfred was born on January 2, 1942 in Fort Worth, Texas, United States. Son of Alfred John and Theresa Matzner.
Bachelor of Science in Physics, U. Notre Dame, 1963; Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, U. Maryland., 1967.
Professor of physics, University Texas, Austin, since 1980; director center for relativity, University Texas, Austin, since 1987. Member editorial board Computers in Physics, American Institute Physics, New York City, since 1988.
(An advanced physics textbook that explains the mathematic...)
(This book investigates the propagation of waves in the pr...)
Member American Physical Society, International Society of Gravitation and General Relativity (science nominating committee).
Married Sara Pitt, June 1, 1967. Children: Christopher, Deborah.