Gravity : an introduction to Einstein's general relativity
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Gravity : an introduction to Einstein's general relativity
Cambridge University Press, c2021
- hbk.
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Originally published: [Harlow]: Pearson Education, 2003
Includes bibliographical references (p. 563-567) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Einstein's theory of general relativity is a cornerstone of modern physics. It also touches upon a wealth of topics that students find fascinating – black holes, warped spacetime, gravitational waves, and cosmology. Now reissued by Cambridge University Press, this ground-breaking text helped to bring general relativity into the undergraduate curriculum, making it accessible to virtually all physics majors. One of the pioneers of the 'physics-first' approach to the subject, renowned relativist James B. Hartle, recognized that there is typically not enough time in a short introductory course for the traditional, mathematics-first, approach. In this text, he provides a fluent and accessible physics-first introduction to general relativity that begins with the essential physical applications and uses a minimum of new mathematics. This market-leading text is ideal for a one-semester course for undergraduates, with only introductory mechanics as a prerequisite.
目次
- List of Boxes
- Preface
- Figure credits
- Part I. Space and Time in Newtonian Physics and Special Relativity: 1. Gravitational physics
- 2. Geometry as physics
- 3. Space, time, and gravity in Newtonian physics
- 4. Principles of special relativity
- 5. Special relativistic mechanics. Part II. The Curved Spacetimes of General Relativity: 6. Gravity as geometry
- 7. Description of curved spacetime
- 8. Geodesics
- 9. The geometry outside a spherical star
- 10. Solar System tests of general relativity
- 11. Relativistic gravity in action
- 12. Gravitational collapse and black holes
- 13. Astrophysical black holes
- 14. A little rotation
- 15. Rotating black holes
- 16. Gravitational waves
- 17. The universe observed
- 18. Cosmological models
- 19. Which universe and why?. Part III. The Einstein Equation: 20. A little more math
- 21. Curvature and the Einstein equation
- 22. The source of curvature
- 23. Gravitational wave emission
- 24. Relativistic stars
- Appendix A. Units
- Appendix B. Curvature quantities
- Appendix C. Curvature and the Einstein equation
- Appendix D. Pedagogical strategy
- Bibliography
- Index.
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