Bernard Schutz (Cardiff University)

A First Course in General Relativity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Updating one of the most widely used introductory textbooks on Einstein's general relativity, this third edition includes the latest updates on gravitational waves, black holes, and cosmology. It introduces the science of relativity to final-year undergraduates and graduate students, requiring only a minimal background in mathematics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 3 Revised edition
• Erscheinungstermin: Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 197mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 1252g
• ISBN-13: 9781108492676
• ISBN-10: 1108492673
• Artikelnr.: 62846463

Autorenporträt

Bernard Schutz is a Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at Cardiff University, Wales, and Director (ret.) at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Germany. In 2019 he was elected a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, and in 2021, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society, in recognition of his seminal contributions to relativistic astrophysics.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the third edition page
Preface to the second edition
Preface to the first edition
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. The Einstein field equations
9. Fundamentals of Gravitational Radiation
10. Spherical solutions for stars
11. Schwarzschild geometry and black holes
12. Gravitational wave astronomy
13. Cosmology
Appendix A. Summary of linear algebra
References
Index.