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Relativity, Gravitation and Cosmology A Basic Introduction

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Relativity, Gravitation and Cosmology

A Basic Introduction

Second Edition

Ta-Pei Cheng

Oxford Master Series in Physics 11

456 pages | 240 line ilustrations | 246x189mm

978-0-19-957364-6 | Paperback | 05 November 2009

Also available as: Hardback

Price: £28.50

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Accessible introduction, with interesting applications described before difficult mathematics.
Designed to allow readers with physics background to learn the subject alone.
Up to date in latest cosmological discoveries and tests of general relativity.
A balanced presentation between formal structure and applications of general relativity.
Covers topics of lasting relevance and importance.

New to this edition

In this new edition of the book, presentations on special relativity and black holes are augmented by new chapters. Other parts of the book are updated to include new observation tests of general relativity (e.g., the double pulsar system) and more recent evidence for dark matter and dark energy.

Einstein's general theory of relativity is introduced in this advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate level textbook. Topics include special relativity, in the formalism of Minkowski's four-dimensional space-time, the principle of equivalence, Riemannian geometry and tensor analysis, Einstein field equation, as well as many modern cosmological subjects, from primordial inflation and cosmic microwave anisotropy to the dark energy that propels an accelerating universe.
The author presents the subject with an emphasis on physical examples and simple applications without the full tensor apparatus. The reader first learns how to describe curved spacetime. At this mathematically more accessible level, the reader can already study the many interesting phenomena such as gravitational lensing, precession of Mercury's perihelion, black holes, and cosmology. The full tensor formulation is presented later, when the Einstein equation is solved for a few symmetric cases. Many modern topics in cosmology are discussed in this book: from inflation, cosmic microwave anisotropy to the "dark energy" that propels an accelerating universe.
Mathematical accessibility, together with the various pedagogical devices (e.g., worked-out solutions of chapter-end problems), make it practical for interested readers to use the book to study general relativity and cosmology on their own.

Readership: Primary textbook for a relativity-cosmology course either at the advanced undergraduate or beginning-graduate level. Could also be used by physics and astronomy students or just general readers with some physics training, who want to study general relativity and cosmology on their own, or as a supplementary text in a more rigorous graduate level course on general relativity and cosmology, or a cosmology course offered in an astronomy department.

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