Relativistic cosmology has in recent years become one of the most exciting and active branches of current research. In conference after conference the view is expressed that cosmology today is where particle physics was forty years ago, with major discoveries just waiting to happen. Also gravitational wave detectors, presently under construction or in the testing phase, promise to open up an entirely novel field of physics.
It is to take into account such recent developments, as well as to improve the basic text, that this second edition has been undertaken. The most affected is the last part on cosmology, but there are smaller additions, corrections, and additional exercises throughout.
The books basic purpose is to make relativity come alive conceptually. Hence the emphasis on the foundations and the logical subtleties rather than on the mathematics or the detailed experiments per se. Aided by some 300 exercises, the book promotes a deep understanding and the confidence to tackle any fundamental relativistic problem.
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By:
Wolfgang Rindler (Department of Physics The University of Texas at Dallas)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:
Height: 240mm,
Width: 159mm,
Spine: 28mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780198567318
ISBN 10: 0198567316
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 01 May 2006
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
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A / AS level
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Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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
Professor Wolfgang Rindler Department of Physics The University of Texas at Dallas Richardson, TX 75083-0688 USA
Reviews for Relativity: Special, General, and Cosmological
The appearance of a book by W. Rindler is always good news even if it is the second edition of his well received textbook on Einstein's relativity theories ... Rindler's is an excellent book, best for relativists and (university) teachers, very good for advanced graduate students... Hubert Goenner, General Relativity and Gravitation
