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Black Hole Astrophysics

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Recognizing Black Holes
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    Chapter 2 Macroquasars: Supermassive Black Holes in the Centers of Galaxies
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    Chapter 3 Microquasars: Black Holes (and Neutron Stars) of Stellar Mass in Our Galaxy
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    Chapter 4 Miniquasars: Elusive Black Holes of Intermediate Mass
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    Chapter 5 Physics in Everyday Life: A Review of Newtonian Mechanics
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    Chapter 6 Geometry and Physics without Gravity: Special Relativity
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    Chapter 7 Physics in Curved Spacetime: General Relativity and Black Holes
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    Chapter 8 Four-Dimensional Evolving Geometry: Gravitational Waves and Gravitational Collapse
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    Chapter 9 Nuts and Bolts of the Black Hole Engine: General Relativistic Mechanics
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    Chapter 10 Assembling the Engine Block: Formation of Black Holes in the Universe
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    Chapter 11 Fueling and Carburetion: Breakup and Accretion of Stars and Gas Clouds
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    Chapter 12 The Combustion Chamber: Energy Generation by Gravitational Accretion
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    Chapter 13 The Thermal Exhaust System: Radiation- and Thermally-Driven Winds and Jets
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    Chapter 14 The Non-Thermal Exhaust System I. Rotating Magnetospheres that Drive the Turbo Exhaust
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    Chapter 15 The Non-Thermal Exhaust System II. MagneticWinds and Jets
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    Chapter 16 Putting it All Together: Black Hole Engines of All Sizes
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Chapter title
Nuts and Bolts of the Black Hole Engine: General Relativistic Mechanics
Chapter number 9
Book title
Black Hole Astrophysics
Published by
Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, January 2012
DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-01936-4_9
Book ISBNs
978-3-64-201935-7, 978-3-64-201936-4
Authors

David L. Meier, Meier, David L.