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Relativity: Special, General, and Cosmological

Relativity: Special, General, and Cosmological


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Relativistic cosmology has in recent years become one of the most exciting and active branches of current research. In conference after conference the view is expressed that cosmology today is where particle physics was forty years ago, with major discoveries just waiting to happen. Also gravitational wave detectors, presently under construction or in the testing phase, promise to open up an entirely novel field of physics.

It is to take into account such recent developments, as well as to improve the basic text, that this second edition has been undertaken. The most affected is the last part on cosmology, but there are smaller additions, corrections, and additional exercises throughout.

The books basic purpose is to make relativity come alive conceptually. Hence the emphasis on the foundations and the logical subtleties rather than on the mathematics or the detailed experiments per se. Aided by some 300 exercises, the book promotes a deep understanding and the confidence to tackle any fundamental relativistic problem.

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Table of Contents:
Introduction 1: From absolute space and time to influenceable spacetime: an overview Part I: Special Relativity 2: Foundations of special relativity; the Lorentz transformation 3: Relativistic kinematics 4: Relativistic optics 5: Spacetime and four-vectors 6: Relativistic particle mechanics 7: Four-tensors; electromagnetism in vacuum Part II: General Relativity 8: Curved spaces and the basic ideas of general relativity 9: Static and stationary spacetimes 10: Geodesics, curvature tensor, and vacuum field equations 11: The Schwarzschild metric 12: Black holes and Kruskal space 13: An exact plane gravitational wave 14: The full field equations; de Sitter space 15: Linearized general relativity Part III: Cosmology 16: Cosmological spacetimes 17: Light propagation in FRW universes 18: Dynamics of FRW universes

About the Author :
Professor Wolfgang Rindler Department of Physics The University of Texas at Dallas Richardson, TX 75083-0688 USA

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`Rindler's writing is elegant, yet compact and logically precise. ... this book should be on the shelf of all who are intrigued by the startling modern advances in our understanding of space and time. ' American Journal of Physics `An outstanding introductory treatise by one of the masters of the subject, this book belongs to the shelves of every physics library. ' Foundations of Physics `... a self-contained and balanced work. Every sentence hits home, and no word is superfluous. Each chapter ends with a set of well-chosen and instructive exercises. ... it exposes the reader to the physics with inspiring and occasionally surprising arguments. ... a totally successful textbook and a must for all who study special and general relativity.' Physik Journal `... a first-class presentation of the intellectual glory of the first century of relativity.' Times Higher Education Supplement


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780198567318
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press
  • Edition: Revised edition
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Special, General, and Cosmological
  • Width: 159 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0198567316
  • Publisher Date: 06 Apr 2006
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 240 mm
  • No of Pages: 448
  • Spine Width: 28 mm
  • Weight: 791 gr


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