An Overview of General Relativity and Space-Time

An Overview of General Relativity and Space-Time
ISBN-10
1000802221
ISBN-13
9781000802221
Category
Science
Pages
316
Language
English
Published
2022-12-29
Publisher
CRC Press
Author
Nicola Vittorio

Description

This textbook equips Masters’ students studying Physics and Astronomy with the necessary mathematical tools to understand the basics of General Relativity and its applications. It begins by reviewing classical mechanics with a more geometrically oriented language, continues with Special Relativity and, then onto a discussion on the pseudo-Riemannian space-times. Applications span from the inner and outer Schwarzschild solutions to gravitational wave, black holes, spherical relativistic hydrodynamics, and Cosmology. The goal is to limit the abstract formalization of the problems, to favor a hands-on approach with a number of exercises, without renouncing to a pedagogical derivation of the main mathematical tools and findings.

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