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100	1		_aRindler, Wolfgang, _d1924- _99580
245	1	0	_aRelativity : _bSpecial, General, and Cosmological / _cWolfgang Rindler.
250			_a2nd ed.
260			_aOxford : _bOxford University Press, _c2006.
300			_axv, 430 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
500			_aPrevious ed.: 2001.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_aINTRODUCTION; 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
520			_aRelativistic 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 detailed experiments per se. Aided by some 300 exercises, the book promotes a deep understanding and the confidence to tackle any fundamental relativistic problem.
650		0	_aRelativity (Physics) _99581
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