Basic relativity
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Bibliographic Information
Basic relativity
（Springer study edition）
Springer-Verlag, 2002
- pbk
Available at 3 libraries
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The Institute for Solid State Physics Library. The University of Tokyo.図書室
pbk421.2:B17210373010
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 443) and index
First softcover printing, 2002.
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This comprehensive textbook develops in a logical and coherent way both the formalism and the physical ideas of special and general relativity. Part one focuses on the special theory and begins with the study of relativistic kinematics from three points of view. Part two begins with a chapter introducing differential geometry. Subsequent chapters cover: rotation, the electromagnetic field, and material media. A second chapter on differential geometry provides the background for Einstein's gravitational-field equation and Schwarzschild's solution. The book is aimed at advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students in physics or astrophysics.
Table of Contents
Preface//1. Principles of Relativity//2. The Physical Arguments//3. The Algebraic and Graphical Arguments//4. Mathematical Tools//5. Dynamics//6. Electromagnetic Theory//7. Differential Geometry I//8. Uniform Acceleration//9. Rotation and the Electromagnetic Field//10. The Material Medium//11. Differential Geometry II: Curved Surfaces//12. General Relativity//13. Astrophysics//14. Cosomology// Appendices// Index
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