Lecture Notes on the General Theory of Relativity

From Newton's Attractive Gravity to the Repulsive Gravity of Vacuum Energy
2. Printing.
ISBN: 978-0-387-88133-1
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, Band 772, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 1220 g

Reihe: Lecture Notes in Physics

This book is the result of more than twenty years of lecturing a master course on the General Theory of Relativity at the University of Oslo, Norway, by Dr. Øyvind Grøn. The text has been continuously updated by Dr. Grøn and is written so students can follow the deductions all the way throughout the book. The conceptual content of the general theory of relativity is presented briefly but reasonably and completely. Both bachelor students and master students will find the text useful as the manuscript is organized to easily find the topics one wants to read about, with separate lists of contents, figures, definitions, examples, and an index.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grøn, Øyvind

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Astrophysik
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astrophysik
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Kosmologie, Urknalltheorie
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Theoretische Physik, Mathematische Physik, Computerphysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik Relativität, Gravitation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation.- The Special Theory of Relativity.- Vectors, Tensors and Forms.- Accelerated Reference Frames.- Covariant Differentiation.- Curvature.- Einstein’s Field Equations.- The Schwarzschild Spacetime.- Black Holes.- Schwarzschild’s Interior Solution.- Cosmology.