Description: Foreword by Kip S. Thorne PART ONE Relativistic Instabilities and Post-Newtonian Approximations 1. Dynamical Instability of Gaseous Masses Approaching the Schwarzschild Limit in General Relativity Physical Review Letters 12, no. 4 (January 1964): 114-116. Incorporates errata in Physical Review Letters 12, no. 5 (April 1964). 2. The Dynamical Instability of Gaseous Masses Approaching the Schwarzschild Limit in General Relativity The Astrophysical Journal 140, no. 2 (August 1964): 417-33 3. The Dynamical Instability of the White-Dwarf Configurations Approaching the Limiting Mass. With R. F. Tooper The Astrophysical Journal 139, no. 4 (May 1964): 1396-98 4. The Virial Theorem in General Relativity in the Post-Newtonian Approximation. With G. Contopoulos Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 49, no. 5 (May 1963): 608-13 5. On a Post-Galilean Transformation Appropriate to the Post Newtonian Theory of Einstein, Infeld and Hoffman. With G. Contopoulos Proceedings of the Royal Society , A, 298 (April 1967): 123-41 6. The Post-Newtonian Equations of Hydrodynamics in General Relativity The Astrophysical Journal 142, no. 4 (November 1965): 1488-1512 7. Conservation Laws in General Relativity and in the Post Newtonian Approximations The Astrophysical Journal 158, no. 1 (October 1969): 45-54 8. The Second Post-Newtonian Equations of Hydrodynamics in General Relativity. With Yavuz Nutku The Astrophysical Journal 158, no. 1 (October 1969): 55-79 9. The 2-1/2 Post-Newtonian Equations of Hydrodynamics and Radiation Reaction in General Relativity. With F. Paul Esposito The Astrophysical Journal 160, no. 1 (April 1970): 153-79 10. Post-Newtonian Methods and Conservation Laws Relativity, ed. M. Carmeli, S. I. Fickler, and L. Witten {Plenum Press, 1970),81-108 11. The Stability of Gaseous Masses for Radial and Non-Radial Oscillations in the Post-Newtonian Approximation of General Relativity The Astrophysical Journal 142, no. 4 (November 1965): 1519-40 12. On the Onset of Relativistic Instability in Highly Centrally Condensed Stars. With Norman R. Lebovitz Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 207, no. 2 (March 1984): 13p-16p 13. Solutions of Two Problems in the Theory of Gravitational Radiation Physical Review Letters 24, no. 11 (March 1970): 611-15 14. The Effect of Gravitational Radiation on the Secular Stability of the Maclaurin Spheroid The Astrophysical Journal 161 , no. 2 (August 1970): 561-69 15. Proceedings at Meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society The Observatory 92, no. 989 (August 1972): 116-20 16. The Stability of Stellar Masses in General Relativity Proceedings of the First European Astronomical Meeting , Athens,September 4-9, 1972, vol. 3 (Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1974), 162-65 17. The Stability of Relativistic Systems Gravitational Radiation and Gravitational Collapse , ed. C. DeWitt-Morette {D. Reidel, 1974),63-81 18. The Post-Newtonian Effects of General Relativity on the Equilibrium of Uniformly Rotating Bodies. I, The Maclaurin Spheroids and the Virial Theorem The Astrophysical Journal 142, no. 4 (November 1965): 1513-18 19. The Post-Newtonian Effects of General Relativity on the Equilibrium of Uniformly Rotating Bodies. II, The Deformed Figures of the Maclaurin Spheroids The Astrophysical Journal 147, no. 1 (January 1967): 334-52 20. The Post-Newtonian Effects of General Relativity on the Equilibrium of Uniformly Rotating Bodies. III, The Deformed Figures of the Jacobi Ellipsoids The Astrophysical Journal 148, no. 2 (May 1967): 621-44 21. The Post-Newtonian Effects of General Relativity on the Equilibrium of Uniformly Rotating Bodies. IV, The Roche Model The Astrophysical Journal 148, no. 2 (May 1967): 645-49 22. The Post-Newtonian Effects of General Relativity on the Equilibrium of Uniformly Rotating Bodies. V, The Deformed Figures of the Maclaurin Spheroids (Continued) The Astrophysical Journal 167, no. 3 (August 1971): 447-53 23. The Post-Newtonian Effects of General Relativity on the Equilibrium of Uniformly Rotating Bodies. VI, The Deformed Figures of the Jacobi Ellipsoids (Continued) The Astrophysical Journal 167, no. 3 (August 1971): 455-63 24. The Deformed Figures of the Dedekind Ellipsoids in the Post-Newtonian Approximation to General Relativity. With Donna D. Elbert The Astrophysical Journal 192, no. 3 (September 1974): 731-46. Incorporates corrections and amplifications in The Astrophysical Journal 220, no. 1 (February 1978). PART TWO The Stability and the Equilibrium of Rotating Systems in General Relativity 25. Criterion for the Instability of a Uniformly Rotating Configuration in General Relativity. With John L. Friedman Physical Review Letters 26, no. 17 (April 1971): 1047-50 26. On the Stability of Axisymmetric Systems to Axisymmetric Perturbations in General Relativity. I, The Equations Governing Nonstationary, Stationary, and Perturbed Systems. With John L. Friedman The Astrophysical Journal 175, no. 2 (July 1972): 379-405 27. On the Stability of Axisymmetric Systems to Axisymmetric Perturbations in General Relativity. II, A Criterion for the Onset of Instability in Uniformly Rotating Configurations and the Frequency of the Fundamental Mode in Case of Slow Rotation. With John L. Friedman The Astrophysical ]ournaI 176, no. 3 (September 1972): 745-68 28. On the Stability of Axisymmetric Systems to Axisymmetric Perturbations in General Relativity. III, Vacuum Metrics and Carter''s Theorem. With John L. Friedman The Astrophysical Journal 177, no. 3 (November 1972): 745-56 29. On the Stability of Axisymmetric Systems to Axisymmetric Perturbations in General Relativity. IV, Allowance for Gravitational Radiation in an Odd-Parity Mode. With John L. Friedman The Astrophysical Journal 181, no. 2 (April 1973): 481-95 30. On a Criterion for the Occurrence of a Dedekind-like Point of Bifurcation Along a Sequence of Axisymmetric Systems. I, Relativistic Theory of Uniformly Rotating Configurations. With John L. Friedman The Astrophysical Journal 185, no. 1 (October 1973): 1-18 31. On a Criterion for the Occurrence of a Dedekind-like Point of Bifurcation Along a Sequence of Axisymmetric Systems. II, Newtonian Theory for Differentially Rotating Configurations. With Norman R. Lebovitz The Astrophysical Journal 185, no. 1 (October 1973): 19-30 32. On a Criterion for the Onset of Dynamical Instability by a Nonaxisymmetric Mode of Oscillation Along a Sequence of Differentially Rotating Configurations The Astrophysical Journal 187, no. 1 (January 1974): 169-74 33. Virial Relations for Uniformly Rotating Fluid Masses in General Relativity The Astrophysical Journal 147, no. 1 (January 1967): 383-84 34. On the Slowly Rotating Homogeneous Masses in General Relativity. With John C. Miller Monthly Notices ofthe Royal Astronomical Society 167, no. 1 (April 1974): 63-79 PART THREE Miscellaneous Papers in General Relativity 35. A Limiting Case of Relativistic Equilibrium General Relativity (Papers in Honor of J. L. Synge), ed. L. O''Raifeartaigh (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972), 185-99 36. The Geodesics in Godel''s Universe. With James P. Wright Proceedings ofthe National Academy of Sciences 48, no. 3 (March 1961): 341-47 37. On the "Derivation" of Einstein''s Field Equations American Journal of Physics 40, no. 2 (February 1972): 224-34 38. The General Theory of Relativity: The First Thirty Years Contemporary Physics 21, no. 5 (1980): 429-49 39. The Increasing Role of General Relativity in Astronomy (Halley Lecture for 1972) The Observatory 92, no. 990 (October 1972): 160-74 40. Einstein''s General Theory of Relativity and Cosmology The Great Ideas Today (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1979),90-138 A Commentary on Dirac''s Views on lithe Excellence of General Relativity" Festi-Val: Festschrift for Val Telegdi , ed K. Winter (Amsterdam: North Holland, 1988),49-56

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