Wolfgang Rindler (The University of Texas at Department of Physics

Relativity

Special, General, and Cosmological

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A modern thinking person's guide to all of Einstein's relativity. Full of mathematical rigor, but stressing physical insight, motivation, and clarity of concepts and logic, rather than mere formalism or experimental detail. Over 300 thought-provoking problems.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• 2nd ed.
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 678g
• ISBN-13: 9780198567325
• ISBN-10: 0198567324
• Artikelnr.: 20813953

Autorenporträt

Professor Wolfgang Rindler Department of Physics The University of Texas at Dallas Richardson, TX 75083-0688 USA

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: From absolute space and time to influenceable spacetime: an overview
Part I: Special Relativity
2: Foundations of special relativity; the Lorentz transformation
3: Relativistic kinematics
4: Relativistic optics
5: Spacetime and four-vectors
6: Relativistic particle mechanics
7: Four-tensors; electromagnetism in vacuum
Part II: General Relativity
8: Curved spaces and the basic ideas of general relativity
9: Static and stationary spacetimes
10: Geodesics, curvature tensor, and vacuum field equations
11: The Schwarzschild metric
12: Black holes and Kruskal space
13: An exact plane gravitational wave
14: The full field equations; de Sitter space
15: Linearized general relativity
Part III: Cosmology
16: Cosmological spacetimes
17: Light propagation in FRW universes
18: Dynamics of FRW universes

Rezensionen

Rindler's writing is elegant, yet compact and logically precise. ... this book should be on the shelf of all who are intrigued by the startling modern advances in our understanding of space and time. American Journal of Physics