General Relativity and Cosmology

✍ Scribed by George Cuncliffe McVittie

• Publisher: Chapman & Hall
• Year: 1965
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 250
• Series: The international astrophysics series, 4
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Editors' note
Preface to the first edition
Preface to the second edition
Contents
1 Introduction
2 The tensor calculus and Riemannian geometry
3 Newtonian mechanics and special relativity
4 The principles of general relativity
5 The Schwarzschild space-time
6 Approximations to Einstein's equations and Newtonian gas-dynamics
7 Special cases of Newtonian gas-dynamics
8 Theory of uniform model universes
9 Observational cosmology
Appendix
References and notes
Index