General Relativity: An Introduction to Black Holes, Gravitational Waves, and Cosmology

ISBN-13: 9781681748825 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 138 str.

Michael J. W. Hall

Opis

Based on a set of 18 class-tested lectures delivered to fourth-year physics undergraduates at Griffith University in Brisbane, this book book presents new discoveries by the Nobel-prize winning LIGO collaboration.

Spis treści

• Preface
• About the author
• List of symbols
• 1. Concepts in special relativity
• 2. Tensors in relativity
• 3. The equivalence principle and local inertial frames
• 4. The motion of freely falling particles in general relativity
• 5. The Schwarzchild metric and black holes
• 6. Tensors and geometry
• 7. Einstein's field equations
• 8. Solving the field equations: vacuum solutions
• 9. Solving the field equations: cosmological solutions
• Appendices