Relativity

Special, General, and Cosmological
2. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-19-856731-8
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 448 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 834 g

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rindler, Wolfgang

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik Teilchenphysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik Relativität, Gravitation
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Kosmologie, Urknalltheorie
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astrophysik
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astronomie: Allgemeines
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Astrophysik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- 1: From absolute space and time to influenceable spacetime: an overview

- Part I: Special Relativity

- 2: Foundations of special relativity; the Lorentz transformation

- 3: Relativistic kinematics

- 4: Relativistic optics

- 5: Spacetime and four-vectors

- 6: Relativistic particle mechanics

- 7: Four-tensors; electromagnetism in vacuum

- Part II: General Relativity

- 8: Curved spaces and the basic ideas of general relativity

- 9: Static and stationary spacetimes

- 10: Geodesics, curvature tensor, and vacuum field equations

- 11: The Schwarzschild metric

- 12: Black holes and Kruskal space

- 13: An exact plane gravitational wave

- 14: The full field equations; de Sitter space

- 15: Linearized general relativity

- Part III: Cosmology

- 16: Cosmological spacetimes

- 17: Light propagation in FRW universes

- 18: Dynamics of FRW universes

Über Autor(innen)

Professor Wolfgang Rindler
Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, TX 75083-0688
USA