General Relativity

Name: General Relativity
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ISBN: 9781846284861

ISBN-10: 1846284864

ISBN-13: 9781846284861

Edition: 2007

Authors: N. M. J. Woodhouse

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Based on a course given at Oxford over many years, this book is a short and concise exposition of the central ideas of general relativity. Although the original audience was made up of mathematics students, the focus is on the chain of reasoning that leads to the relativistic theory from the analysis of distance and time measurements in the presence of gravity, rather than on the underlying mathematical structure. The geometric ideas - which are central to the understanding of the nature of gravity - are introduced in parallel with the development of the theory, the emphasis being on laying bare how one is led to pseudo-Riemannian geometry through a natural process of reconciliation of…

Book details

List price: $44.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Springer London, Limited
Publication date: 12/11/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 220
Size: 7.01" wide x 10.00" long x 0.17" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English




Newtonian gravity



Inertial coordinates and tensors



Energy-momentum tensors



Curved space-time



Tensor calculus



Einstein's equation



Spherical symmetry



Orbits in the Schwarzschild space-time



Black holes



Rotating bodies



Gravitational waves



Redshift and horizons