Core principles of special and general relativity /
[Book]
James H. Luscombe.
Boca Raton, FL :
CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group,
[2019]
1812
xii, 388 pages :
illustrations ;
27 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Relativity : a theory of space, time, and gravity -- Basic special relativity -- Lorentz transformation, I -- Geometry of Lorentz invariance -- Tensors on flat spaces -- Lorentz transformation, II -- Particle dynamics -- Covariant electrodynamics -- Energy-momentum of fields -- Relativistic hydrodynamics -- Equivalence of local gravity and acceleration -- Acceleration in special relativity -- Tensors on manifolds -- Differential geometry -- General relativity -- The Schwarzschild metric -- Physical effects of Schwarzschild spacetime -- Linearized gravity -- Relativistic cosmology.
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