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Relativistic cosmology has in recent years become one of the most exciting and active branches of current research. In conference after conference the view is expressed that cosmology today is where particle physics was forty years ago, with major discoveries just waiting to happen. Also
gravitational wave detectors, presently under construction or in the testing phase, promise to open up an entirely novel field of physics.
It is to take into account such recent developments, as well as to improve the basic text, that this second edition has been undertaken. The most affected is the last part on cosmology, but there are smaller additions, corrections, and additional exercises throughout.
The books basic purpose is to make relativity come alive conceptually. Hence the emphasis on the foundations and the logical subtleties rather than on the mathematics or the logical subtleties rather than on the mathematics or the detailed experiments per se. Aided by some 300 exercises, the book
promotes a deep understanding and the confidence to tackle any fundamental relativistic problem.
Professor Wolfgang Rindler Department of Physics The University of Texas at Dallas Richardson, TX 75083-0688 USA
Show moreRelativistic cosmology has in recent years become one of the most exciting and active branches of current research. In conference after conference the view is expressed that cosmology today is where particle physics was forty years ago, with major discoveries just waiting to happen. Also
gravitational wave detectors, presently under construction or in the testing phase, promise to open up an entirely novel field of physics.
It is to take into account such recent developments, as well as to improve the basic text, that this second edition has been undertaken. The most affected is the last part on cosmology, but there are smaller additions, corrections, and additional exercises throughout.
The books basic purpose is to make relativity come alive conceptually. Hence the emphasis on the foundations and the logical subtleties rather than on the mathematics or the logical subtleties rather than on the mathematics or the detailed experiments per se. Aided by some 300 exercises, the book
promotes a deep understanding and the confidence to tackle any fundamental relativistic problem.
Professor Wolfgang Rindler Department of Physics The University of Texas at Dallas Richardson, TX 75083-0688 USA
Show moreIntroduction
1: From absolute space and time to influenceable spacetime: an
overview
Part I: Special Relativity
2: Foundations of special relativity; the Lorentz
transformation
3: Relativistic kinematics
4: Relativistic optics
5: Spacetime and four-vectors
6: Relativistic particle mechanics
7: Four-tensors; electromagnetism in vacuum
Part II: General Relativity
8: Curved spaces and the basic ideas of general relativity
9: Static and stationary spacetimes
10: Geodesics, curvature tensor, and vacuum field equations
11: The Schwarzschild metric
12: Black holes and Kruskal space
13: An exact plane gravitational wave
14: The full field equations; de Sitter space
15: Linearized general relativity
Part III: Cosmology
16: Cosmological spacetimes
17: Light propagation in FRW universes
18: Dynamics of FRW universes
Professor Wolfgang Rindler
Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, TX 75083-0688
USA
`Rindler's writing is elegant, yet compact and logically precise.
... this book should be on the shelf of all who are intrigued by
the startling modern advances in our understanding of space and
time.
'
American Journal of Physics
`An outstanding introductory treatise by one of the masters of the
subject, this book belongs to the shelves of every physics
library.
'
Foundations of Physics
`... a self-contained and balanced work. Every sentence hits home,
and no word is superfluous. Each chapter ends with a set of
well-chosen and instructive exercises. ... it exposes the reader to
the physics with inspiring and occasionally surprising arguments.
... a totally successful textbook and a must for all who study
special and general relativity.'
Physik Journal
`... a first-class presentation of the intellectual glory of the
first century of relativity.'
Times Higher Education Supplement
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