Norman Gray (University of Glasgow)

A Student's Guide to General Relativity

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This compact guide presents key features of general relativity to help students understand its core ideas and the basics of differential geometry. It describes how general covariance and the equivalence principle motivate Einstein's theory of gravitation and introduces the mathematical technology which allows us to understand Einstein's equations.

Produktdetails

• Student's Guides
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9781316634790
• ISBN-10: 1316634795
• Artikelnr.: 52532132

Autorenporträt

Norman Gray is a research fellow at the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, where he has regularly taught the General Relativity honours course since 2002. He was educated at Edinburgh and Cambridge Universities, and completed his Ph.D. in particle theory at the UK's Open University. His current research relates to astronomical data management and he is an Editor of the journal Astronomy and Computing.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction
2. Vectors, tensors and functions
3. Manifolds, vectors and differentiation
4. Energy, momentum and Einstein's equations
Appendix A. Special relativity - a brief introduction
Appendix B. Solutions to Einstein's equations
Appendix C. Notation
Bibliography
Index.