General Relativity and Cosmology A First Encounter
Gravitational physics has now become a mainstream topic in physics and physics teaching. In particular cosmology and gravitational wave physics are at the focus of a great deal of current research. Thus it is important to introduce students to General Relativity as soon as reasonable. This textbook...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2021, 2021
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2021 |
| Series: | Graduate Texts in Physics
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Part I: Special Relativity in Review
- Chapter 1. A brief stroll in special relativity
- Chapter 2. Lorentz transformations
- Chapter 3. The motion of particles
- Part II: Vectors and Tensors
- Chapter 4. Riemann spaces and tensors
- Chapter 5. Affine connections and geodesics
- Chapter 6. Tensor analysis
- Part III: General Relativity
- Chapter 7. Classical gravity and geometry
- Chapter 8. Curved space and gravity
- Chapter 9. Spherically symmetric gravitational fields
- Chapter 10. Black holes and gravitational collapse
- Chapter 11. Linearized general relativity and gravitational waves
- Part IV: Cosmology
- Chapter 12. The Einstein field equations for cosmology
- Chapter 13. The cosmological metric
- Chapter 14. The dynamical equations of cosmology
- Chapter 15. Solutions for the present universe
- Chapter 16. Some properties of the LCDM Universe
- Chapter 17. Earlier times and radiation
- Chapter 18. A brief historical overview of the universe
- Chapter 19. Inflation and basic questions.