Gravitation and Spacetime

Name: Gravitation and Spacetime
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ISBN: 9781107012943

ISBN-10: 1107012945

ISBN-13: 9781107012943

Edition: 3rd 2012 (Revised)

Authors: Hans C. Ohanian, Remo Ruffini

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The third edition of this classic textbook is a quantitative introduction for advanced undergraduates and graduate students. It gently guides students from Newton's gravitational theory to special relativity, and then to the relativistic theory of gravitation. General relativity is approached from several perspectives: as a theory constructed by analogy with Maxwell's electrodynamics, as a relativistic generalization of Newton's theory, and as a theory of curved spacetime. The authors provide a concise overview of the important concepts and formulas, coupled with the experimental results underpinning the latest research in the field. Numerous exercises in Newtonian gravitational theory and…

Book details

Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/8/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 546
Size: 7.01" wide x 10.00" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 2.398
Language: English



Preface



Newton's gravitational theory



The formalism of special relativity



The linear approximation



Applications of the linear approximation



Gravitational waves



Riemannian geometry



Einstein's gravitational theory



Black holes and gravitational collapse



Cosmology



The early universe


Appendix: variational principle and energy-momentum tensor


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Index