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- catalog abstract ""Starting with the idea of an event and finishing with a description of the standard big-bang model of the Universe, this textbook provides a clear, concise and up-to-date introduction to the theory of general relativity, suitable for final-year undergraduate mathematics or physics students. Throughout, the emphasis is on the geometric structure of spacetime, rather than the traditional coordinate-dependent approach. This allows the theory to be pared down and presented in its simplest and most elegant form."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11271033.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""Starting with the idea of an event and finishing with a description of the standard big-bang model of the Universe, this textbook provides a clear, concise and up-to-date introduction to the theory of general relativity, suitable for final-year undergraduate mathematics or physics students. Throughout, the emphasis is on the geometric structure of spacetime, rather than the traditional coordinate-dependent approach. This allows the theory to be pared down and presented in its simplest and most elegant form."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-214) and index.".
- catalog description "The Concept of Spacetime -- Events and Spacetime -- Events -- Inertial Particles -- Light and Null Cones -- Flat Spacetime and Special Relativity -- Flat Spacetime -- Distance, Time, and Angle -- Speed and the Doppler Effect -- The Geometry of Flat Spacetime -- Spacetime Vectors -- The Spacetime Metric -- Volume and Particle Density -- Energy -- Energy and Four-Momentum -- The Energy-Momentum Tensor -- General States of Matter -- Perfect Fluids -- Acceleration and the Maxwell Tensor -- Tensors -- Tensors at a Point -- The Abstract Index Notation -- Tensor Fields -- Congruences and Derivations -- Lie Derivatives -- Field Equations -- Conservation Laws -- Maxwell's Equations -- Charge, Mass, and Angular Momentum -- Curved Spacetime and Gravity -- Curved Spacetime -- Spacetime as a Manifold -- The Spacetime Metric -- The Covariant Derivative -- The Curvature Tensor -- Constant Curvature -- Curvature and Gravity -- Geodesics -- Einstein's Field Equation -- Gravity as an Attractive Force -- Null Congruences -- Surface-Forming Null Congruences -- Twisting Null Congruences -- Asymptotic Flatness and Symmetries -- Asymptotically Flat Spacetimes -- Killing Fields and Stationary Spacetimes -- Kerr Spacetime -- Energy and Intrinsic Angular Momentum -- Schwarzschiid Geometries and Spacetimes -- Schwarzschild Geometries -- Geodesics in a Schwarzschild Spacetime -- Three Classical Tests of General Relativity -- Schwarzschild Spacetimes -- Black Holes and Singularities -- Spherical Gravitational Collapse -- Singularities.".
- catalog extent "xii, 217 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0521630193 (hardbound)".
- catalog identifier "052163976X (paperback)".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog subject "530.11 21".
- catalog subject "General relativity (Physics)".
- catalog subject "Geometrodynamics.".
- catalog subject "QC173.6 .L83 1999".
- catalog subject "Space and time.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The Concept of Spacetime -- Events and Spacetime -- Events -- Inertial Particles -- Light and Null Cones -- Flat Spacetime and Special Relativity -- Flat Spacetime -- Distance, Time, and Angle -- Speed and the Doppler Effect -- The Geometry of Flat Spacetime -- Spacetime Vectors -- The Spacetime Metric -- Volume and Particle Density -- Energy -- Energy and Four-Momentum -- The Energy-Momentum Tensor -- General States of Matter -- Perfect Fluids -- Acceleration and the Maxwell Tensor -- Tensors -- Tensors at a Point -- The Abstract Index Notation -- Tensor Fields -- Congruences and Derivations -- Lie Derivatives -- Field Equations -- Conservation Laws -- Maxwell's Equations -- Charge, Mass, and Angular Momentum -- Curved Spacetime and Gravity -- Curved Spacetime -- Spacetime as a Manifold -- The Spacetime Metric -- The Covariant Derivative -- The Curvature Tensor -- Constant Curvature -- Curvature and Gravity -- Geodesics -- Einstein's Field Equation -- Gravity as an Attractive Force -- Null Congruences -- Surface-Forming Null Congruences -- Twisting Null Congruences -- Asymptotic Flatness and Symmetries -- Asymptotically Flat Spacetimes -- Killing Fields and Stationary Spacetimes -- Kerr Spacetime -- Energy and Intrinsic Angular Momentum -- Schwarzschiid Geometries and Spacetimes -- Schwarzschild Geometries -- Geodesics in a Schwarzschild Spacetime -- Three Classical Tests of General Relativity -- Schwarzschild Spacetimes -- Black Holes and Singularities -- Spherical Gravitational Collapse -- Singularities.".
- catalog title "General relativity : a geometric approach / Malcolm Ludvigsen.".
- catalog type "text".