Gravity: An Introduction to Einstein's General Relativity

✍ Scribed by James B. Hartle

• Publisher: Pearson Education Limited
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 549
• Series: Pearson New International Edition
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Einstein's theory of general relativity is a cornerstone of modern physics. It also touches upon a wealth of topics that students find fascinating—Black holes, warped spacetime, gravitational waves, and cosmology. Until now, it has not been included in the curriculum of many undergraduate physics courses because the required math is too advanced. The aim of this ground-breaking new text is to bring general relativity into the undergraduate curriculum and make this fundamental theory accessible to virtually all physics majors. Using a "physics first" approach to the subject, renowned relativist James Hartle provides a fluent and accessible introduction that uses a minimum of new mathematics and illustrates a wealth of applications. Recognizing that there is typically not enough time in a short introductory course for the traditional, math-first, approach to the subject, Hartle presents a physics-first introduction to general relativity that begins with the essential physical applications.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Gravitational Physics
Chapter 2. Geometry as Physics
Chapter 3. Space, Time, and Gravity in Newtonian Physics
Chapter 4. Principles of Special Relativity
Chapter 5. Special Relativistic Mechanics
Chapter 6. Gravity as Geometry
Chapter 7. The Description of Curved Spacetime
Chapter 8. Geodesics
Chapter 9. The Geometry Outside a Spherical Star
Chapter 10. Solar System Tests of General Relativity
Chapter 11. Relativistic Gravity in Action
Chapter 12. Gravitational Collapse and Black Holes
Chapter 13. Astrophysical Black Holes
Chapter 14. A Little Rotation
Chapter 15. Rotating Black Holes
Chapter 16. Gravitational Waves
Chapter 17. The Universe Observed
Chapter 18. Cosmological Models
Chapter 19. Which Universe and Why?
Chapter 20. A Little More Math
Chapter 21. Curvature and the Einstein Equation
Chapter 22. The Source of Curvature
Chapter 23. Gravitational Wave Emission
Chapter 24. Relativistic Stars
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