Relativity Made Relatively Easy Volume 2

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Beschreibung

Following on from a previous volume on Special Relativity, Andrew Steane's second volume on General Relativity and Cosmology is aimed at advanced undergraduate or graduate students undertaking a physics course, and encourages them to expand their knowledge of Special Relativity.

Beginning with a survey of the main ideas, the textbook goes on to give the methodological foundations to enable a working understanding of astronomy and gravitational waves (linearized approximation, differential geometry, covariant differentiation, physics in curved spacetime). It covers the generic properties of horizons and black holes, including Hawking radiation, introduces the key concepts in cosmology and gives a grounding in classical field theory, including spinors and the Dirac equation, and a Lagrangian approach to General Relativity.

The textbook is designed for self-study and is aimed throughout at clarity, physical insight, and simplicity, presenting explanations and derivations in full, and providing many explicit examples.

Über den Autor

Andrew Steane is a Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford. He has conducted experimental and theoretical research into the foundations of physics and has performed pioneering quantum experiments with ultra-cold atomic clouds, as well as establishing the ion trap quantum computing program at Oxford. Professor Steane discovered quantum error correction and the CSS (Calderbank Shor Steane) codes and he is a recipient of the Maxwell Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics, and the Trotter Prize of Texas A&M University. He regularly lectures on relativity and other areas of physics and has published two undergraduate physics textbooks and two books on science and religion with Oxford University Press.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Preface

2: Terminology and notation

3: The elements of general relativity

4: An introductory example: the uniform static field

5: Life in a rotating world

6: Linearized general relativity

7: Slow stationary sources

8: Gravitational waves

9: Manifolds

10: Vectors on manifolds

11: The affine connection

12: Further useful ideas

13: Tensors

14: Parallel transport and geodesics

15: Physics in curved spacetime

16: Curvature

17: The Einstein field equation

18: Schwarzschild-Droste solution

19: Further spherically symmetric solutions

20: Rotating bodies; the Kerr metric

21: Black holes

22: Black hole thermodynamics

23: Cosmology

24: Cosmological dynamics

25: The growth of structure

26: Observational cosmology

27: The very early universe

28: First steps in classical field theory

29: Lagrangian mechanics for fields

30: Conclusion

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Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Fachbereich:	Astronomie
Genre:	Importe , Physik
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780192893543
ISBN-10:	0192893548
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Steane, Andrew M
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	244 x 188 x 27 mm
Von/Mit:	Andrew M Steane
Erscheinungsdatum:	02.02.2022
Gewicht:	1,43 kg