Relativity Made Relatively Easy Volume 2

NOTE EDITORE

Following on from a previous volume on Special Relativity, Andrew Steane's second volume on General Relativity and Cosmology is aimed at advanced undergraduate or graduate students undertaking a physics course, and encourages them to expand their knowledge of Special Relativity. Beginning with a survey of the main ideas, the textbook goes on to give the methodological foundations to enable a working understanding of astronomy and gravitational waves (linearized approximation, differential geometry, covariant differentiation, physics in curved spacetime). It covers the generic properties of horizons and black holes, including Hawking radiation, introduces the key concepts in cosmology and gives a grounding in classical field theory, including spinors and the Dirac equation, and a Lagrangian approach to General Relativity. The textbook is designed for self-study and is aimed throughout at clarity, physical insight, and simplicity, presenting explanations and derivations in full, and providing many explicit examples.

SOMMARIO

1 - Preface2 - Terminology and notation3 - The elements of general relativity4 - An introductory example: the uniform static field5 - Life in a rotating world6 - Linearized general relativity7 - Slow stationary sources8 - Gravitational waves9 - Manifolds10 - Vectors on manifolds11 - The affine connection12 - Further useful ideas13 - Tensors14 - Parallel transport and geodesics15 - Physics in curved spacetime16 - Curvature17 - The Einstein field equation18 - Schwarzschild-Droste solution19 - Further spherically symmetric solutions20 - Rotating bodies; the Kerr metric21 - Black holes22 - Black hole thermodynamics23 - Cosmology24 - Cosmological dynamics25 - The growth of structure26 - Observational cosmology27 - The very early universe28 - First steps in classical field theory29 - Lagrangian mechanics for fields30 - Conclusion

AUTORE

Andrew Steane is a Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford. He has conducted experimental and theoretical research into the foundations of physics and has performed pioneering quantum experiments with ultra-cold atomic clouds, as well as establishing the ion trap quantum computing program at Oxford. Professor Steane discovered quantum error correction and the CSS (Calderbank Shor Steane) codes and he is a recipient of the Maxwell Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics, and the Trotter Prize of Texas A&M University. He regularly lectures on relativity and other areas of physics and has published two undergraduate physics textbooks and two books on science and religion with Oxford University Press.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780192895646
• Dimensioni: 254 x 31.0 x 196 mm Ø 1240 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: 17 halftones, 89 line art illustrations, 3 combo illustrations
• Pagine Arabe: 512