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Gravity, Black Holes, and the Very Early Universe An Introduction to General Relativity and Cosmology /

In the early 1900s, Albert Einstein formulated two theories that would forever change the landscape of physics: the Special Theory of Relativity and the General Theory of Relativity. By 1925, quantum mechanics had been born out of the dissection of these two theories, and shortly after that, relativ...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chow, Tai L. (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
Edición:1st ed. 2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo

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505 0 |a Basic Ideas of General Relativity -- Curvilinear Coordinates and General Tensors -- Einstein's Law of Gravitation -- The Schwarzschild Solution -- Experimental Tests of Einstein's Theory -- The Physics of Black Holes -- to Cosmology -- Big Bang Models -- Particles, Forces, and Unification of Forces -- The Inflationary Universe -- The Physics of the Very Early Universe. 
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