β Scribed by I.B. Khriplovich
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
This book offers an alternative to other textbooks on the subject, providing a more specific discussion of numerous general relativistic effects for readers who have knowledge of classical mechanics and electrodynamics, including special relativity. Coverage includes in particular gravitational lensing, signal retardation in the gravitational field of the Sun, the Reissner-Nordstr?m solution, selected spin effects, the resonance transformation of an electromagnetic wave into a gravitational one, and the entropy and temperature of black holes. The book includes numerous problems at various levels of difficulty, making it ideal also for independent study by a broad readership of advanced students and researchers. I.B. Khriplovich is Chief Researcher, Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk, and Chair of Theoretical Physics at Novosibirsk University. Dr. Khriplovich is aΒ Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. HeΒ has beenΒ awarded theΒ Dirac Medal For the advancement of theoretical physics'' by University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, and the Pomeranchuk PrizeFor outstanding contribution to the understanding the properties of the standard model, especially for illuminating work on weak and strong interactions of quarks'' by theΒ Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia.
front-matter......Page 2
Introduction......Page 11
Particle in Gravitational Field......Page 15
Fundamentals of Riemann Geometry......Page 21
Einstein Equations......Page 37
Weak Field. Observable Effects......Page 43
Variational Principle. Exact Solutions......Page 51
Interaction of Spin with Gravitational Field......Page 71
Gravitational Waves......Page 87
General Relativity and Cosmology......Page 103
Are Black Holes Really Black......Page 113
back-matter......Page 125
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