Lecture Notes on the General Theory of Relativity From Newton's Attractive Gravity to the Repulsive Gravity of Vacuum Energy /

• Main Author: Grøn, Øyvind (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 772
• Subjects: Physics.; Gravitation.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.

This book has resulted from a course in the general theory of relativity at the University of Oslo where the author has lectured for more than twenty years. Although the text is designed for master students, it is rather self-contained. Since mathematics courses on differential geometry and tensor c...

Table of Contents:

• 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.