Relativity, gravitation and cosmology : a basic introduction
Title:
Relativity, gravitation and cosmology : a basic introduction
Author:
Cheng, Ta-Pei.
ISBN:
9780199573639
9780199573646
Personal Author:
Edition:
2nd ed.
Publication Information:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Physical Description:
xiii, 435 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Series:
Oxford master series in particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology
Oxford master series in physics
Contents:
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.