General Relativity and Cosmology

✍ Scribed by Jayant V. Narlikar (auth.)

• Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
• Year: 1978
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 287
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Theories of Gravitation....Pages 1-9
Vectors and Tensors....Pages 10-26
Tensor Calculus....Pages 27-39
Space-Time Curvature....Pages 40-56
Space-Time Symmetries....Pages 57-71
Energy Momentum Tensors....Pages 72-89
The Einstein Equations of Gravitation....Pages 90-104
The Schwarzschild Solution....Pages 105-119
The Experimental Tests of General Relativity....Pages 120-140
Strong Gravitational Fields (I): Relativistic Astrophysics....Pages 141-155
Strong Gravitational Fields(II): Black Holes....Pages 156-172
Cosmology....Pages 173-187
The Friedmann Models....Pages 188-203
The Steady State Theory....Pages 204-215
Observational Tests in Cosmology....Pages 216-230
Mach’s Principle....Pages 231-243
Glimpses into Advanced Topics (I)....Pages 244-254
Glimpses into Advanced Topics (II)....Pages 255-270
Back Matter....Pages 271-279

✦ Subjects

Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology; Cosmology