General relativity : a concise introduction

✍ Scribed by Carlip, Steven Jonathan

Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Leaves: 154
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This is a short textbook on general relativity and gravitation aimed at readers with a broad range of interests in physics, from cosmology to high energy physics to condensed matter. The approach is "physics first": readers move quickly to the calculation of observational predictions and only then return to mathematical foundations.

✦ Table of Contents

Gravity as geometry --
Geodesics --
Geodesics in the solar system --
Manifolds and tensors --
Derivatives and curvature --
The Einstein field equations --
The stress-energy tensor --
The weak field approximation --
Gravitational waves --
Black holes --
Cosmology --
The Hamiltonian formalism --
Next steps.

✦ Subjects

Relativity (Physics);Gravitation;SCIENCE / Energy;SCIENCE / Mechanics / General;SCIENCE / Physics / General

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