First Course in General Relativity

Name: First Course in General Relativity
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ISBN: 9780521277037

ISBN-10: 0521277035

ISBN-13: 9780521277037

Edition: 1985

Authors: Bernard F. Schutz

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General relativity has become one of the central pillars of theoretical physics, with important applications in both astrophysics and high-energy particle physics, and no modern theoretical physicist's education should be regarded as complete without some study of the subject. This textbook, based on the author's own undergraduate teaching, develops general relativity and its associated mathematics from a minimum of prerequisites, leading to a physical understanding of the theory in some depth. It reinforces this understanding by making a detailed study of the theory's most important applications - neutron stars, black holes, gravitational waves, and cosmology - using the most up-to-date…

Book details

List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 1985
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/31/1985
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Preface



Special relativity



Vector analysis in special relativity



Tensor analysis in special relativity



Perfect fluids in special relativity



Preface to curvature



Curved manifolds



Physics in a curved spacetime



The Einstein field equations



Gravitational radiation



Spherical solutions for stars



Schwarzschild geometry and black holes



Cosmology


Appendices


References


Index