General Relativity

By: I. R. Kenyon

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Paperback | 19 October 2004

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244 Pages

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23.39 x 15.6 x 1.32

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Einstein's general theory of relativity is perhaps the most important perspective to emerge in a century of astonishing progress in the field of physics. However, it is also a notoriously difficult subject for beginning students. This book describes general relativity in terms understandable
to undergraduates in physics and astronomy. It discusses concepts and experimental results, and provides a succinct account of formalism. A brief review of special relativity is followed by a discussion of the equivalence principle and its implications. Other topics covered include concepts of
curvature and the Schwarzschild metric, tests of the theory of relativity, black holes and their properties, gravitational radiation and methods for its detection, the impact of general relativity on cosmology, and the continuing search for a quantum theory of gravity. A set of worked examples,
background appendices, and an annotated bibliography are also included. Written at a level accessible to nonspecialists, this book is especially strong on the experimental physics of relativity.

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The book includes an excellent discussion of the equivalence principle, and of the traditional and some newer tests of the general theory...For physicists and astronomers, this is a very useful addition to available undergraduate textbooks on general relativity.--NY Times Higher Education Supplement

Concise enough to fit into a one-semester format, yet covers enough topics so that the reader can become familiar with many important terms, problems and prospects in the field. . . .The reader, or student, will gain from this book an exposure to the major features, successes and problems of general relativity. --Mathematical Reviews

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