A Student's Manual for A First Course in General Relativity

✍ Scribed by Schutz B., Scott R.B

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 322
• Edition: Student
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This comprehensive student manual has been designed to accompany the leading textbook by Bernard Schutz, A First Course in General Relativity, and uses detailed solutions, cross-referenced to several introductory and more advanced textbooks, to enable self-learners, undergraduates and postgraduates to master general relativity through problem solving. The perfect accompaniment to Schutz's textbook, this manual guides the reader step-by-step through over 200 exercises, with clear easy-to-follow derivations. It provides detailed solutions to almost half of Schutz's exercises, and includes 125 brand new supplementary problems that address the subtle points of each chapter. It includes a comprehensive index and collects useful mathematical results, such as transformation matrices and Christoffel symbols for commonly studied spacetimes, in an appendix. Supported by an online table categorising exercises, a Maple worksheet and an instructors' manual, this text provides an invaluable resource for all students and instructors using Schutz's textbook

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Special relativityVector analysis in special relativity --
Tensor analysis in special relativity --
Perfect fluids in special relativity --
Preface to curvature --
Curved manifolds --
Physics in curved spacetime --
The Einstein field equations --
Gravitational radiation --
Spherical solutions for stars --
Schwarzschild geometry and black holes --
Cosmology.

✦ Subjects

General relativity (Physics) -- Problems, exercises, etc;Astrophysics -- Problems, exercises, etc;Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie;Astrophysics;General relativity (Physics)