A Student's Guide to General Relativity

ISBN-13: 9781316634790 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 162 str.

Norman Gray

Opis

Presents the key features of General Relativity to help students understand its core ideas and the basics of differential geometry.

Recenzje

'This book is part of the Cambridge 'Student's Guide' series. It is based on a 10 lecture course the author taught at the University of Glasgow. The book is mostly about introducing the math needed to reach the discussion of the Einstein equation.' Jorge Pullin, zbMATH

Spis treści

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.