General Relativity: Curvature and Geodesics
β Scribed by Utkarsh Bajaj
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 139
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
This book is the first volume out of a 2-volume book series on General Relativity (GR), and offers a detailed introduction into the mathematics of GR, special relativity and the equivalence principle. It teaches these concepts by charting a studentβs progress through GR, who constantly stumbles and rises in an effort to arrive at epiphanies which ultimately lead to a concrete understanding of the ideas underlying one of the most important theories in modern physics.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
This book is a text on classical general relativity from a geometrical viewpoint. Introductory chapters are provided on algebra, topology and manifold theory together with a chapter on the basic ideas of space-time manifolds and Einstein's theory. There is a detailed account of algebraic structures
This file comes from http://www.slimy.com/~steuard/teaching/tutorials/ Most applications of differential geometry, including general relativity, assume that the connection is βtorsion freeβ: that vectors do not rotate during parallel transport. Because some extensions of GR (such as string theory