Relativity
Special, General, and Cosmological
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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 6 April 2006
- ISBN 9780198567325
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages448 pages
- Size 234x156x25 mm
- Weight 648 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 126 line drawings 0
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Short description:
A modern thinking person's guide to all of Einstein's relativity. Full of mathematical rigor, but stressing physical insight, motivation, and clarity of concepts and logic, rather than mere formalism or experimental detail. Over 300 thought-provoking problems.
MoreLong description:
Relativistic cosmology has in recent years become one of the most active and exciting branches of research, often considered to be today where particle physics was forty years ago, with major discoveries just waiting to happen. Consequently the part most affected by this second edition is the last part on cosmology. But there are additions, improvements, and new exercises throughout. _ The book's basic purpose is unchanged. It is to make relativity come alive conceptually, and to display the grand theoretical edifice that it is, with consequences in many branches of physics. The emphasis is on the foundations, on the logical subtleties, and on presenting the necessary mathematics - including differential geometry and tensors - but always as late and in as palatable a form as possible. Aided by over 300 exercises, the book seeks to promote an in-depth understanding, and the confidence to tackle any basic problem in relativity.
Rindler's writing is elegant, yet compact and logically precise. ... this book should be on the shelf of all who are intrigued by the startling modern advances in our understanding of space and time.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
From absolute space and time to influenceable spacetime: an overview
Part I: Special Relativity
Foundations of special relativity; the Lorentz transformation
Relativistic kinematics
Relativistic optics
Spacetime and four-vectors
Relativistic particle mechanics
Four-tensors; electromagnetism in vacuum
Part II: General Relativity
Curved spaces and the basic ideas of general relativity
Static and stationary spacetimes
Geodesics, curvature tensor, and vacuum field equations
The Schwarzschild metric
Black holes and Kruskal space
An exact plane gravitational wave
The full field equations; de Sitter space
Linearized general relativity
Part III: Cosmology
Cosmological spacetimes
Light propagation in FRW universes
Dynamics of FRW universes
