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A first course in general relativity /
General relativity has become one of the central pillars of theoretical physics, with important applications in both astrophysics and high-energy particle physics, and no modern theoretical physicists education should be regarded as complete without some study of the subject. This textbook, based o...
| Clasificación: | QC173.6 S3.82 1986 |
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York :
Cambridge University,
[1985].
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface.
- 1. Special relativity.
- 2. Vector analysis in special relativity.
- 3. Tensor analysis in special relativity.
- 4. Perfect fluids in special relativity.
- 5. Preface to curvature.
- 6. Curved manifolds.
- 7. Physics in a curved spacetime.
- 8. Einstein field equations.
- 9. Gravitational radiation.
- 10. Spherical solutions for stars.
- 11. Schwarzschild geometry and black holes.
- 12. Cosmology.