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Relativity, gravitation and cosmology : a basic introduction
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- Creator
- Ta-Pei Cheng
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Second edition
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010
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- Physical Details
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- xiii, 435 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780199573639, 0199573638, 9780199573646, 0199573646
- OCLC
- ocn436358414
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- I. Preliminaries -- 1. Introduction and Overview -- 2. Special relativity: the basics -- II. Relativity - Metric Description of Spacetime -- 3. Special relativity: the geometric formulation -- 4. Principle of equivalence -- 5. Metric description of a curved space -- 6. GR as a geometric theory of gravity - I -- 7. Spherically symmetric spacetime - GR tests -- 8. Black holes -- III. Cosmology -- 9. Homogeneous and isotropic universe -- 10. Expanding universe and thermal relics -- 11. Inflation and the accelerating universe -- IV. Relativity - Full Tensor Formulation -- 12. Tensors in special relativity -- 13. Tensors in general relativity -- 14. GR as a geometric theory of gravity - II -- 15. Linearized theory and gravitational waves -- Physical constants