Joel Franklin (Oregon Reed College)

An Introduction to Gravity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Why can't you take Newtonian gravity, add special relativity, and build a relativistic theory of gravity that matches the predictions of our accepted theory, Einstein's general relativity? Ideal for a one-semester course at junior/senior level, this student-friendly text builds on familiar physics to illuminate the structure of general relativity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 262mm x 183mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 822g
• ISBN-13: 9781009389709
• ISBN-10: 100938970X
• Artikelnr.: 69792514

Autorenporträt

Joel Franklin is a professor in the Physics Department of Reed College, Oregon. His research focuses on mathematical and computational methods with applications to classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, electrodynamics, general relativity and its modifications. He is also the author of textbooks on Advanced Mechanics and General Relativity, Computational Methods for Physics, Classical Field Theory, and Mathematical Methods for Oscillations and Waves, all published by Cambridge University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Newtonian gravity
2. Transformation and tensors
3. The Riemann tensor and Einstein's equation
4. Vacuum solutions and geodesics
5. Gravitational waves and radiation
6. Gravitational sources
7. Field theories and gravity
Appendix A. Lorentz transformations and special relativity
Appendix B. Runge-Kutta methods
Appendix C. Curvature in D = 1, 2
References
Index.