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An introduction to relativity /
"General relativity is now an essential part of undergraduate and graduate courses in physics, astrophysics and applied mathematics. This simple, user-friendly introduction to relativity is ideal for a first course in the subject. Beginning with a comprehensive but simple review of special rela...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The special theory of relativity
- From special to the general theory of relativity
- Vectors and tensors
- Covariant differentiation
- Curvature of spacetime
- Spacetime symmetries
- Physics in curved spacetime
- Einstein's equations
- The Schwarzschild solutions
- Experimental tests of general relativity
- Gravitational radiation
- Relativistic astrophysics
- Black holes
- The expanding universe
- Friedmann models
- The early universe
- Observational cosmology
- Beyond relativity.