Format:
Online-Ressource (XX, 396 S.)
Edition:
3. ed., thoroughly revised and updated
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Online-Ausg
ISBN:
9780511616532
Content:
Thoroughly revised and updated, this textbook provides a pedagogical introduction to relativity. It is self-contained, but the reader is expected to have a basic knowledge of theoretical mechanics and electrodynamics. It covers the most important features of both special and general relativity, as well as touching on more difficult topics, such as the field of charged pole-dipole particles, the Petrov classification, groups of motions, gravitational lenses, exact solutions and the structure of infinity. The necessary mathematical tools (tensor calculus, Riemannian geometry) are provided, most of the derivations are given in full, and exercises are included where appropriate. Written as a textbook for undergraduate and introductory graduate courses, it will also be of use to researchers working in the field. The bibliography gives the original papers and directs the reader to useful monographs and review papers
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
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Online-Ausg.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521811859
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521010696
Additional Edition:
Buchausg. u.d.T. Stephani, Hans Relativity Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004 ISBN 0521811856
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521010691
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521811859
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521010696
Language:
English
Subjects:
Physics
Keywords:
Relativitätstheorie
;
Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie
;
Gravitationstheorie
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511616532
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