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This text provides a comprehensive and timely introduction to general relativity. The foundations of the theory in Part I are thoroughly developed together with the required mathematical background from differential geometry in Part III. The six chapters in Part II are devoted to tests of general re...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Straumann, Norbert, 1936-
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Springer, [2004]
Series:Texts and monographs in physics.
Subjects:
General relativity (Physics)
Relativistic astrophysics.
Relatividade (física)
Astrofisica.
Cosmologia.
Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie.
Relativistische Astrophysik.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • The General Theory of Relativity: Physics in External Gravitational Fields
  • Einstein's Field Equations
  • Applications of General Relativity
  • The Schwarzschild Solution and Classical Tests of General Relativity
  • Weak Gravitational Fields
  • The Post-Newtonian Approximation
  • White Dwarfs and Neutron Stars
  • Black Holes
  • Differential Geometry: Differentiable Manifolds
  • Tangent Vectors, Vector and Tensor Fields
  • The Lie Derivative
  • Differential Forms
  • Affine Connections
  • Some Details
  • References
  • Index.