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  title info:
    title: General relativity for the gifted amateur
  name:
    name part: Lancaster, Tom
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Blundell, Stephen
    name part: 1967-
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource : illustrations.
  abstract: Using numerous worked examples, diagrams and careful physically motivated explanations this book will smooth the path towards understanding the radically different and revolutionary view of the physical world that general relativity provides and which all physicists should have the opportunity to experience.
  table of contents: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Contents -- 0 Overture -- 0.1 What is relativity? -- 0.2 What is general relativity? -- 0.3 What is a metric? -- 0.4 What are we building on? -- 0.5 Who is this book for? -- 0.6 Units in this book -- Exercises -- I Geometry and mechanics in at spacetime -- 1 Special relativity -- 1.1 A common sense start -- 1.2 The speed of light -- 1.3 Light cones and the Lorentz transformation -- 1.4 Paths through spacetime -- 1.5 Experiments -- Chapter summary -- Exercises -- 2 Vectors in at spacetime -- 2.1 Vectors -- 2.2 Coordinate transformations
  table of contents: 2.3 Examples of vectors -- 2.4 Principle of least action -- Chapter summary -- Exercises -- 3 Coordinates -- 3.1 Coordinates in Euclidean space -- 3.2 Farewell to the position vector -- 3.3 Non-Euclidean space -- Chapter summary -- Exercises -- 4 Linear slot machines -- 4.1 Dot products and down vectors -- 4.2 Vectors and 1-forms -- 4.3 Transformations -- 4.4 Tensors -- 4.5 Energy-momentum tensor -- Chapter summary -- Exercises -- 5 The metric -- 5.1 Metrics in general -- 5.2 Meet some metrics -- 5.3 Light and light cones -- 5.4 Lengths, areas, volumes -- Chapter summary -- Exercises
  table of contents: II Curvature and general relativity -- 6 Finding a theory of gravitation -- 6.1 Free fall and the equivalence principle -- relativity? -- 6.2 Why -- 6.3 A di erential equation to describe gravity -- 6.4 Local atness -- 6.5 Time dilation in a gravitational eld -- Chapter summary -- Exercises -- 7 Parallel lines and the covariant derivative -- 7.1 Parallelism -- 7.2 Derivatives and connections -- 7.3 The covariant derivative -- 7.4 Parametrized paths -- 7.5 Enter the metric -- Chapter summary -- Exercises -- 8 Free fall and geodesics -- 8.1 Extremal intervals -- 8.2 A geodesic equation
  table of contents: 8.3 Inertial forces -- 8.4 Geodesics for photons -- Chapter summary -- Exercises -- 9 Geodesic equations and connection coefficients -- 9.1 Finding connection coe cients -- 9.2 The geodesic equation from the action -- Chapter summary -- Exercises -- 10 Making measurements in relativity -- 10.1 Observers and their observations -- 10.2 Coordinate and non-coordinate bases -- 10.3 The orthonormal frame -- 10.4 Freely falling frames -- Chapter summary -- Exercises -- 11 Riemann curvature and the Ricci tensor -- 11.1 What is curvature? -- 11.2 Tidal forces -- 11.3 Riemann curvature
  table of contents: 11.4 Symmetries of the Riemann tensor -- 11.5 The Ricci tensor and Ricci scalar -- 11.6 Example computations -- 11.7 Geodesic deviation revisited -- Chapter summary -- Exercises -- 12 The energy-momentum tensor -- 12.1 Another look at the energy-momentum tensor -- 12.2 Example energy-momentum tensors -- 12.3 Classical particles -- 12.4 Conservation laws -- Chapter summary -- Exercises -- 13 The gravitational field equations -- 13.1 Geometry: a recap of the key ingredients -- 13.2 Physics: the key ingredients -- 13.3 An incorrect guess -- 13.4 Einstein's eld equation -- Chapter summary
  target audience: Specialized.
  target audience: specialized
  note: Tom Lancaster and Stephen Blundell.
  subject:
    topic: General relativity (Physics)
  subject:
    topic: Relativité générale (Physique)
  subject:
    topic: Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
  subject:
    topic: Gravity
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Science
  classification: QC173.6 .L3 2025
  classification: 530.11
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    title info:
      title: General relativity for the gifted amateur
    name:
      name part: Lancaster, Tom.
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2025
    identifier: (OCoLC)1456753370
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  record info:
    record content source: STBDS
    record creation date: 250106
    record change date: 20260319205531.6
    record identifier: in00005727848
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng