General Relativity

• Main Author: Woodhouse, N. M. J. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2007.
• Series: Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series,
• Subjects: Physics.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Differential geometry.; Gravitation.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.; Applications of Mathematics.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.; Differential Geometry.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.

Based on a course given at Oxford over many years, this book is a short and concise exposition of the central ideas of general relativity. Although the original audience was made up of mathematics students, the focus is on the chain of reasoning that leads to the relativistic theory from the analysi...

Table of Contents:

• Newtonian Gravity
• Inertial Coordinates and Tensors
• Energy-Momentum Tensors
• Curved Space—Time
• Tensor Calculus
• Einstein’s Equation
• Spherical Symmetry
• Orbits in the Schwarzschild Space—Time
• Black Holes
• Rotating Bodies
• Gravitational Waves
• Redshift and Horizons.