Relativity: Special, General, and Cosmological / Edition 2

by Wolfgang Rindler

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198567318
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	06/01/2006
Edition description:	Revised Edition
Pages:	448
Product dimensions:	9.32(w) x 6.34(h) x 1.14(d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

Introduction1. From Absolute Space and Time to Influenceable Spacetime: An OverviewI: Special Relativity2. Foundations of Special Relativity: The Lorentz Transformation3. Relativistic Kinematics4. Relativistic Optics5. Spacetime and Four-vectors6. Relativistic Particle Mechanics7. Four-tensors: Electromagnetism in VacuumII: General Relativity 8. Curved Spaces and the Basic Ideas of General Relativity9. Static and Stationary Spacetimes10. Geodesics, Curvature Tensor, and Vacuum Field Equations11. The Schwarzschild Metric12. Black Holes and Kruskal Space13. An Exact Plane Gravitational Wave14. The Full Field Equations: De Sitter Space15. Linearized General RelativityIII: Cosmology16. Cosmological Spacetimes17. Light Propagation in FRW Universes18. Dynamics of FRW UniversesAppendix: Curvture Tensor Components for the Diagonal MetricIndex

Editorial Reviews

"A textbook for graduate or advanced undergraduate physics students who are familiar with calculus up to partial differentiation, ordinary vector, and the binomial theorem. Rindler (physics, U. of Texas-Dallas) has essentially rewritten his earlier Essential Relativity to account for the growing sophistication and inquisitiveness about relativity in mainstream physics. He does not provide a bibliography."—SciTech Book News

"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

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