Relativity: Special, General, and Cosmological
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 9 August 2001
- Number of Volumes laminated boards
- ISBN 9780198508359
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages442 pages
- Size 242x161x28 mm
- Weight 754 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous line figures 0
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Short description:
This book is a considerable amplification and modernisation of the authors' earlier Essential Relativity. It aims to bring the challenge and excitement of modern relativity and cosmology at rigorous mathematical level within reach of advanced undergraduates and beginning graduates, while containing enough new material to interest the experienced lecturer.
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This book is a considerable amplification and modernisation of the author's earlier Essential Relativity. It aims to bring the challenge and excitement of modern relativity and cosmology at rigorous mathematical level within reach of advanced undergraduates and beginning graduates, while containing enough new material to interest lecturers and researchers. Its basic purpose is to make relativity come alive conceptually. Hence the emphasis on the foundations and the logical subtleties rather than on the mathematics or the detailed experiments per se. Aided by some 300 exercises, it promotes a visceral understanding and the confidence to tackle any fundamental relativistic problem. Following a critical overview of the whole field, special-relativistic kinematics is presented three- dimensionally before the mathematical level gradually rises. Four-vectors precede mechanics, four-tensors precede Maxwell theory, and two of the eight chapters on general relativity roll by before general tensors are needed. Three 'easy' chapters on cosmology round off the work.
An outstanding introductory treatise by one of the masters of the subject, this book belongs to the shelves of every physics library.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: From absolute space and time to influenceable space time - 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 graviational 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
Appendix: Curvature tensor components
