Introduction to General Relativity
by Lewis Ryder
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009
- 441 p., xv
Contents
Preface, Notation, Important formulae and physical constants,
1.Introduction 2.Special Relativity, Non-Internal Effects and Electromagnetism 3.Differential Geometry I: Vectors, Different forms and absolute differentiation 4.Differential Geometry II: Geodesics and curvature 5.Einstein field equation, the Schwarzschild solution and experimental tests of general relativity 6.Gravitomagnetic effects: gyroscopes and clocks 7.Gravitational Collapse and Black Holes 8. Action Principle, Conservation Laws and the Cauchy Problem 9.Gravitational Radiation 10.Cosmology 11.Gravitation and Field Theory
References Index
9781108798372 (pbk)
Special Relativity - Differential Geometry - Gravitomagnetic Effects - Cosmology