General Relativity for the Gifted Amateur
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Using numerous worked examples, diagrams and careful physically motivated explanations this book will smooth the path towards understanding the radically different and revolutionary view of the physical world that general relativity provides and which all physicists should have the opportunity to experience.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 0: Overture
- I Geometry and mechanics in at spacetime
- 1: Special relativity
- 2: Vectors in at spacetime
- 3: Coordinates
- 4: Linear slot machines
- 5: The metric
- II Curvature and general relativity
- 6: Finding a theory of gravitation
- 7: Parallel lines and the covariant derivative
- 8: Free fall and geodesics
- 9: Geodesic equations and connection coecients
- 10: Making measurements in relativity
- 11: Riemann curvature and the Ricci tensor
- 12: The energy-momentum tensor
- 13: The gravitational field equations
- 14: The triumphs of general relativity
- III Cosmology
- 15: An introduction to cosmology
- 16: Robertson-Walker spaces
- 17: The Friedmann equations
- 18: Universes of the past and future
- 19: Causality, infinity and horizons
- IV Orbits, stars and black holes
- 20: Newtonian orbits
- 21: The Schwarzschild geometry
- 22: Motion in the Schwarzschild geometry
- 23: Orbits in the Schwarzschild geometry
- 24: Photons in the Schwarzschild geometry
- 25: Black holes
- 26: Black-hole singularities
- 27: Kruskal-Szekeres coordinates
- 28: Hawking radiation
- 29: Charged and rotating black holes
- V Geometry
- 30: Classical curvature
- 31: A reintroduction to geometry
- 32: Differential forms
- 33: Exterior and Lie derivatives
- 34: Geometry of the connection
- 35: Riemann curvature revisited
- 36: Cartan's method
- 37: Duality and the volume form
- 38: Forms, chains and Stokes' theorem
- VI Classical and quantum fields
- 39: Fluids as dry water
- 40: Lagrangian field theory
- 41: Inflation
- 42: The electromagnetic field
- 43: Charge conservation and the Bianchi identity
- 44: Gauge fields
- 45: Weak gravitational fields
- 46: Gravitational waves
- 47: The properties of gravitons
- 48: Higher-dimensional spacetime
- 49: From classical to quantum gravity
- 50: The Big-Bang singularity
- A: Further reading
- B: Conventions and notation
- C: Manifolds and bundles
- D: Embedding
- E: Answers to selected problems
Produktdetails
Erscheinungsdatum
29. April 2025
Sprache
englisch
Seitenanzahl
640
Autor/Autorin
Stephen Blundell, Tom Lancaster
Verlag/Hersteller
Produktart
gebunden
Gewicht
1538 g
Größe (L/B/H)
249/195/43 mm
ISBN
9780192867407
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