Relativity, Gravitation and Cosmology
Relativity, Gravitation and Cosmology
£58.99
GBPAimed at advanced undergraduates, this self-contained textbook covers the key ideas of special and general relativity together with their applications. The textbook introduces students to basic geometric concepts, such as metrics, connections and curvature, before examining general relativity in more detail. It shows the observational evidence supporting the theory, and the description general relativity provides of black holes and cosmological space-times. The textbook is in full colour, with numerous worked examples and exercises with solutions. Key points and equations are highlighted for easy identification, and each chapter ends with a summary list of important concepts and results. This textbook provides the essential background for an up-to-date discussion of modern observational cosmology. Each chapter builds on the previous one as concepts are developed, making it ideal for self-study. Accompanying resources to this textbook are available at: http://www.cambridge.org/features/astrophysics.
- Provides the essential background for an up-to-date discussion of modern observational cosmology
- Each chapter builds on the previous one as concepts are developed, making it ideal for self-study
- Contains worked examples, exercises with solutions, and summary lists of important concepts and results
Reviews & endorsements
'The author has done a great job of producing a text suitable for upper level undergrads and even first year graduate students. The graphics are very good and I particularly appreciate the concise chapter summaries and the exercises with solutions. Students will love this text. I will definitely use it in my upper division classes.' John Huchra, Harvard University
'The presentation of special and general relativity is remarkably clear, with explicit derivations and explanations accompanied by useful and relevant exercises. This text strikes a nice balance between theory and applications and does a commendable job of bringing undergraduates up to speed on a challenging topic. I highly recommend it for a first undergraduate course in general relativity.' Jeremy Darling, University of Colorado
'It is the few books intended for physics undergraduates with which [this] volume should be compared, and it comes out with flying colours … This is an excellent volume which can be highly recommended for an introductory course on general relativity and I hope will have the effect of increasing understanding of this most beautiful and striking creation of twentieth-century physics.' Contemporary Physics
Product details
June 2010Paperback
9780521131384
312 pages
263 × 209 × 20 mm
1kg
80 colour illus. 50 exercises
Out of stock in print form with no current plan to reprint
Table of Contents
- 1. Special relativity and spacetime
- 2. Special relativity and physical laws
- 3. Geometry and curved spacetime
- 4. General relativity
- 5. The Schwarzschild solution and black holes
- 6. Testing general relativity
- 7. Cosmological solutions
- 8. Our Universe
- Index.
