Core principles of special and general relativity /
"This book provides an accessible yet thorough, introduction to special and general relativity, crafted and class-tested over many years of teaching. It is suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students."--
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| Idioma: | inglés |
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Boca Raton, Florida :
CRC Press,
2019
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Table of Contents:
- Relativity : a theory of space, time, and gravity
- Basic special relativity
- Lorentz transformation, I
- Geometry of Lorentz invariance
- Tensors on flat spaces
- Lorentz transformation, II
- Particle dynamics
- Covariant electrodynamics
- Energy-momentum of fields
- Relativistic hydrodynamics
- Equivalence of local gravity and acceleration
- Acceleration in special relativity
- Tensors on manifolds
- Differential geometry
- General relativity
- The Schwarzschild metric
- Physical effects of Schwarzschild spacetime
- Linearized gravity
- Relativistic cosmology.