Relativity

Special, General, and Cosmological

Wolfgang Rindler

428 pages, parution le 01/08/2001

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Résumé

This book is a considerable amplification and modernisation of the authors' earlier Essential Relativity. It aims to bring the challenge and excitement of modern relativity and cosmology at rigorous mathematical level within reach of advanced undergraduates and beginning graduates, while containing enough new material to interest the experienced lecturer.

Contents

Introduction: From absolute space and time to influenceable space time-an overview
Part I: Special Relativity: Foundations of special relativity; the Lorentz transformation; relativistic kinematics; relativistic optics; spacetime and four-vectors; relativistic particle mechanics; four-tensors; electromagnetism in vacuum
Part II: General Relativity: Curved spaces and the basic ideas of general relativity; static and stationary spacetimes; goedesics, curvature tensor and vacuum field equations; the Schwarzschild metric; black holes and Kruskal space; an exact graviational wave; the full field equations; de Sitter space; linearized general relativity
Part III: Cosmology: Cosmological spacetimes; light propagation in FRW universes; dynamics of FRW universes
Appendix: Curvature tensor components

L'auteur - Wolfgang Rindler

Wolfgang Rindler, Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Dallas

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Oxford University Press
Auteur(s)	Wolfgang Rindler
Parution	01/08/2001
Nb. de pages	428
Format	15,5 x 23,4
Couverture	Broché
Poids	535g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780198508366