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  title info:
    title: Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology
    sub title: A Primer
  name:
    name part: Hoyng, Peter.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2006
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 294 p. 114 illus., 16 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book offers a succinct and self-contained treatment of general relativity and its application to neutron stars, black holes, gravitational waves and cosmology, at an intermediate level. The required mathematical concepts are introduced informally, following geometrical intuition as much as possible. The approach is theoretical, but there is ample discussion of observational aspects and instrumental issues where appropriate. Topical issues such as the Gravity Probe B mission, and the physics of interferometer detectors of gravitational waves and the angular power spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background are included. The book is written for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students in (astro)physics. The reader is assumed to be familiar with linear algebra and analysis, ordinary differential equations, special relativity, and basic thermal physics, but prior knowledge of differential geometry and general relativity is not required. Containing 140 exercises with extensive hints for their solution this book is ideally suited for a lecture course. The author is a senior scientist at the SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research and teaches regularly at the University of Utrecht.
  table of contents: Geometry of Riemann Spaces -- General Relativity -- The Schwarzschild Metric -- Compact Stars -- Black Holes -- Gravitational waves -- Fermi-Walker Transport -- The Robertson-Walker Metric -- The Evolution of the Universe -- Observational Cosmology -- The Big Bang -- Inflation.
  note: by Peter Hoyng.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Gravitation
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysics
  subject:
    topic: Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysics and Astroparticles
  subject:
    topic: Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
  classification: QB460-466
  classification: 523.01
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Astronomy, Astrophysics Library
  identifier: 9781402045233
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4523-3
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204161912.0
    record identifier: 978-1-4020-4523-3