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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.

Table Of Contents

Table of Contents
Introduction 1
1 From absolute space and time to influenceable spacetime: an overview
3
2 Foundations of special relativity; The Lorentz transformation 33
3 Relativistic kinematics 61
4 Relativistic optics 77
5 Spacetime and four-vectors 89
6 Relativistic particle mechanics 108
7 Four-tensors; Electromagnetism in vacuum 130
8 Curved spaces and the basic ideas of general relativity 165
9 Static and stationary spacetimes 183
10 Geodesics, curvature tensor and vacuum field equations 203
11 The Schwarzschild metric 228
12 Black holes and Kruskal space 258
13 An exact plane gravitational wave 284
14 The full field equations; de Sitter space 296
15 Linearized general relativity 318
16 Cosmological spacetimes 347
17 Light propagation in FRW universes 373
18 Dynamics of FRW universes 391
App Curvature tensor components for the diagonal metric 417
Index 421

Product Details

* ISBN: 0198567316
* ISBN-13: 9780198567318
* Format: Hardcover, 432pp
* Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
* Pub. Date: May 2006
* Edition Description: Revised Edition
* Edition Number: 2

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