Gyros, Clocks, Interferometers... Testing Relativistic Gravity in Space (Hardcover, 2001)

Overview.- An Overview of Solar System Gravitational Physics: The Theory-Experiment Interface.- Determination of the Gravitational Constant.- The Lense-Thrirring Effect.- The Lense-Thirring Effect: From the Basic Notions to the Observed Effects.- Gravity Probe B: Countdown to Launch.- Gravitomagnetism and the Clock Effect.- Spinning Relativistic Particles in External Fields.- Detection of Gravitational Waves.- The GEO 600 Gravitational Wave Detector Status, Research, Development.- Gravitational Radiation Theory and Light Propagation.- Relic Gravitational Waves and Their Detection.- The Equivalence Principle.- Principles of Equivalence: Their Role in Gravitation Physics and Experiments That Test Them.- STEP: A Status Report.- High Sensitive DC SQUID Based Position Detectors for Application in Gravitational Experiments at the Drop Tower Bremen.- Space Accelerometers: Present Status.- Searching for Extra Dimensions and New String-Inspired Forces in the Casimir Regime.- Relativistic Effects in the Motion of the Moon.- Lunar Laser Ranging - A Comprehensive Probe of the Post-Newtonian Long Range Interaction.- Testing Relativistic Gravityand Measuring Solar System Parameters via Optical Space Missions.- Clocks and Rods.- Clocks for Length and Time Measurement.- SpaceTime Mission: Clock Test of Relativityat Four Solar Radii.- Pulsar Timing - Strong Gravity Clock Experiments.- Quantum Tests of General Relativity.- Relativistic Phase Shifts for Dirac Particles Interacting with Weak Gravitational Fields in Matter-Wave Interferometers.- Spin in Gravity.- Spin in Special and General Relativity.- Testing the Dirac Equation.- Electromagnetic Field and Gravity.- How Does the Electromagnetic Field Couple to Gravity, in Particular to Metric, Nonmetricity, Torsion, and Curvature?.