Relativity

A modern thinking person's guide to all of Einstein's relativity. Full of mathematical rigor, but stressing physical insight, motivation, and clarity of concepts and logic, rather than mere formalism or experimental detail. Over 300 thought-provoking problems.

Containing over 300 problems, this is a modern thinking person's guide to all of Einstein's relativity. Featuring mathematical rigour, it also stresses on physical insight, motivation, and clarity of concepts and logic.

... a first-class presentation of the intellectual glory of the first century of relativity.

Autorentext
Professor Wolfgang Rindler
Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, TX 75083-0688
USA



Klappentext
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.

Zusammenfassung
Relativistic cosmology has in recent years become one of the most active and exciting branches of research, often considered to be today where particle physics was forty years ago, with major discoveries just waiting to happen. Consequently the part most affected by this second edition is the last part on cosmology. But there are additions, improvements, and new exercises throughout. _ The book's basic purpose is unchanged. It is to make relativity come alive conceptually, and to display the grand theoretical edifice that it is, with consequences in many branches of physics. The emphasis is on the foundations, on the logical subtleties, and on presenting the necessary mathematics - including differential geometry and tensors - but always as late and in as palatable a form as possible. Aided by over 300 exercises, the book seeks to promote an in-depth understanding, and the confidence to tackle any basic problem in relativity.

Inhalt
Introduction
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

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