A Student's Guide to General Relativity - Couverture souple

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Gray, Norman

 
9781316634790: A Student's Guide to General Relativity
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ISBN 10 : 1316634795 ISBN 13 : 9781316634790
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2018

Synopsis

This compact guide presents the key features of general relativity, to support and supplement the presentation in mainstream, more comprehensive undergraduate textbooks, or as a re-cap of essentials for graduate students pursuing more advanced studies. It helps students plot a careful path to understanding the core ideas and basics of differential geometry, as applied to general relativity, without overwhelming them. While the guide doesn't shy away from necessary technicalities, it emphasises the essential simplicity of the main physical arguments. Presuming a familiarity with special relativity (with a brief account in an appendix), it describes how general covariance and the equivalence principle motivate Einstein's theory of gravitation. It then introduces differential geometry and the covariant derivative as the mathematical technology which allows us to understand Einstein's equations of general relativity. The book is supported by numerous worked exampled and problems, and important applications of general relativity are described in an appendix.

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À propos de l'auteur

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.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1316634795
ISBN 13 
9781316634790
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
164
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  1107183464 ISBN 13 :  9781107183469
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2019
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