An Overview of General Relativity and Space-Time
An Overview of General Relativity and Space-Time This textbook equips Masters' students studying Physics and Astronomy with the necessary mathematical tools to understand the basics of General…
Specifikacia An Overview of General Relativity and Space-Time
An Overview of General Relativity and Space-Time
This textbook equips Masters' students studying Physics and Astronomy with the necessary mathematical tools to understand the basics of General Relativity and its applications. Applications span from the inner and outer Schwarzschild solutions to gravitational wave, black holes, spherical relativistic hydrodynamics, and Cosmology. It begins by reviewing classical mechanics with a more geometrically oriented language, continues with Special Relativity and, then onto a discussion on the pseudo-Riemannian space-times.
The goal is to limit the abstract formalization of the problems, to favor a hands-on approach with a number of exercises, without renouncing to a pedagogical derivation of the main mathematical tools and findings.FeaturesProvides a self-contained introduction to General Relativity and to its standar applications.Presents readers