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"The Confrontation between General Relativity and Experiment"
Clifford M. Will 
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Tests of the Foundations of Gravitation Theory
2.1 The Einstein equivalence principle
2.2 Theoretical frameworks for analyzing EEP
2.3 EEP, particle physics, and the search for new interactions
3 Metric Theories of Gravity and the PPN Formalism
3.1 Metric theories of gravity and the strong equivalence principle
3.2 The parametrized post-Newtonian formalism
3.3 Competing theories of gravity
4 Tests of Post-Newtonian Gravity
4.1 Tests of the parameter γ
4.2 The perihelion shift of Mercury
4.3 Tests of the strong equivalence principle
4.4 Other tests of post-Newtonian gravity
4.5 Prospects for improved PPN parameter values
5 Strong Gravity and Gravitational Waves: Tests for the 21st Century
5.1 Strong-field systems in general relativity
5.2 Motion and gravitational radiation in general relativity: A history
5.3 Compact binary systems in general relativity
5.4 Compact binary systems in scalar–tensor theories
6 Stellar System Tests of Gravitational Theory
6.1 The binary pulsar and general relativity
6.2 A zoo of binary pulsars
6.3 Binary pulsars and alternative theories
6.4 Binary pulsars and scalar–tensor gravity
7 Gravitational-Wave Tests of Gravitational Theory
7.1 Gravitational-wave observatories
7.2 Gravitational-wave amplitude and polarization
7.3 Gravitational-wave phase evolution
7.4 Speed of gravitational waves
8 Astrophysical and Cosmological Tests
9 Conclusions
Acknowledgments
References
Footnotes
Updates
Figures
Tables
Equation Icon  Ψ −0.5PN = 4𝒮− (Nˆ ⋅ v), [ ˆ 2 αm-- ˆ 2] Ψ0PN = 2(𝒮+ − ψ𝒮− ) (N ⋅ v) − r (N ⋅ x) αm [ ( 𝒮 ¯β + 𝒮 ¯β ) ] − 2---- 3𝒮+ − ψ𝒮 − − 8 --+-+-----−-−- , r γ¯ ∂ { [ ( 𝒮+ ¯β+ + 𝒮− ¯β− ) (𝒮 −β¯+ + 𝒮+β¯−) ]} Ψ0.5PN = − --- (ˆN ⋅ x) (3 − 4η)𝒮 − − ψ𝒮+ + 8ψ -------------- − 8 -------------- ∂t ¯γ ¯γ 1- -∂3- ˆ 3 + 3 [(1 − 2η)𝒮 − − ψ𝒮+ ]∂t3(N ⋅ x) , (102 )