Introduction to General Relativity A Course for Undergraduate Students of Physics /

• Main Author: Bambi, Cosimo (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics,
• Subjects: Gravitation.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.

Following the approach of Lev Landau and Evgenii Lifshitz, this book introduces the theory of special and general relativity with the Lagrangian formalism and the principle of least action. This method allows the complete theory to be constructed starting from a small number of assumptions, and is t...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Special Relativity
• Relativistic mechanics
• Electromagnetism
• Riemannian Geometry
• General Relativity
• Einstein's Gravity
• Schwarzschild Spacetime
• Classical Tests of General Relativity
• Black Holes
• Cosmological Models
• Gravitational waves.