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Theory of relativity /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Fayyazuddin, 1930- (Author), Riazuddin (Author), Aslam, Jamil (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Singapore ; Hackensack, New Jersey : World Scientific, [2015]
Subjects:
Relativity (Physics)
Table of Contents:
  • Galilean transformations
  • Special theory of relativity and lorentz transformations
  • Relativistic mechanics
  • Lorentz transformations (general case)
  • Four velocity: Minkowski force
  • Covariant form of electrodynamics
  • Spin
  • Space time groups and their representations
  • Metric tensor, tensor analysis, tensor densities, affine connection
  • Geodesic, equivalence principle, gravitational red shift
  • Curvature tensor, Riemannian tensor, Einstein's field equations
  • Solution of Einstein's equations: the Schwarzschild metric: the Friedmann Robertson and Walker (FRW) metric.