Gravity: An Introduction to Einstein's General Relativity: Pearson New International Edition

✍ Scribed by Hartle, James B

• Publisher: Pearson Education Limited
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 558
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The aim of this groundbreaking new text is to bring general relativity into the undergraduate curriculum and make this fundamental theory accessible to all physics majors. Using a "physics first" approach to the subject, renowned relativist James B. Hartle provides a fluent and accessible introduction that uses a minimum of new mathematics and is illustrated with a wealth of exciting applications.The emphasis is on the exciting phenomena of gravitational physics and the growing connection between theory and observation. The Global Positioning System, black holes, X-ray sources, pulsars, quasars, gravitational waves, the Big Bang, and the large scale structure of the universe are used to illustrate the widespread role of how general relativity describes a wealth of everyday and exotic phenomena.For anyone interested in physics or general relativity.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Table of Contents......Page 4
Chapter 1. Gravitational Physics......Page 8
Chapter 2. Geometry as Physics......Page 18
Chapter 3. Space, Time, and Gravity in Newtonian Physics......Page 36
Chapter 4. Principles of Special Relativity......Page 52
Chapter 5. Special Relativistic Mechanics......Page 82
Chapter 6. Gravity as Geometry......Page 112
Chapter 7. The Description of Curved Spacetime......Page 140
Chapter 8. Geodesics......Page 174
Chapter 9. The Geometry Outside a Spherical Star......Page 192
Chapter 10. Solar System Tests of General Relativity......Page 226
Chapter 11. Relativistic Gravity in Action......Page 241
Chapter 12. Gravitational Collapse and Black Holes......Page 262
Chapter 13. Astrophysical Black Holes......Page 288
Chapter 14. A Little Rotation......Page 303
Chapter 15. Rotating Black Holes......Page 317
Chapter 16. Gravitational Waves......Page 338
Chapter 17. The Universe Observed......Page 354
Chapter 18. Cosmological Models......Page 373
Chapter 19. Which Universe and Why?......Page 407
Chapter 20. A Little More Math......Page 426
Chapter 21. Curvature and the Einstein Equation......Page 452
Chapter 22. The Source of Curvature......Page 478
Chapter 23. Gravitational Wave Emission......Page 498
Chapter 24. Relativistic Stars......Page 522
C......Page 548
E......Page 549
G......Page 551
M......Page 552
N......Page 553
P......Page 554
S......Page 555
T......Page 556
V......Page 557
Z......Page 558

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