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Essential Relativity |
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1969 |
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Rindler, W |
Essential Relativity |
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1977 |
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| Title | Essential Relativity : Special, General, and Cosmological |
| Author(s) | Rindler, W |
| Publication | New York, NY, Springer New York, 1969. |
| Description | XIII, 319 p. 39 illus : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book is an attempt to bring the full range of relativity theory within reach of advanced undergraduates, while containing enough new material and simplifications of old arguments so as not to bore the expert teacher. Roughly equal coverage is given tospecial relativity, general relativity, and cosmology. With many judicious omissions it can be taught in one semester, but it would better serve as the basis of a year's work. It is my hope, anyway, that its level and style of presentation may appeal also to wider c1asses of readers unrestricted by credit considerations. General relativity, the modern theory of gravitation in which free particles move along "straightest possible" lines in curved spacetime, and cosmology, with its dynamics for the whole possibly curved uni?? verse, not only seem necessary for a scientist's balanced view of the world, but offer some of the greatest intellectual thrills of modern physics. Nevertheless, considered luxuries, they are usu?? ally squeezed out of the graduate curriculum by the pressure of specialization. Special relativity escapes this tag with a ven?? geance, and tends to be taught as a pure service discipline, with too little emphasis on its startling ideas. What better time, there?? fore, to enjoy these subjects for their own sake than as an und- v vi PREFACE graduate? In spite of its forbidding mathematical reputation, even general relativity is accessible at that stage |
| ISBN,Price | 9781475711356 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. BIOCHEMISTRY
2. Biochemistry, general
3. Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. GRAVITATION
7. Mathematical Methods in Physics
8. PHYSICS
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| Title | Essential Relativity : Special, General, and Cosmological |
| Author(s) | Rindler, W |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1977. |
| Description | XV, 286 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | In retrospect, the first edition of this book now seems like a mere sketch for a book. The present version is, if not the final product, at least a closer approximation to it. The table of contents may show little change. But that is simply because the original organization of the material has been found satisfactory. Also the basic purpose of the book remains the same, and that is to make relativity come alive conceptually. I have always felt much sym?? pathy with Richard Courant's maxim (as reported and exemplified by Pascual Jordan) that, ideally, proofs should be reached by comprehension rather than computation. Where computations are necessary, I have tried to make them as transparent as possible, so as not to hinder the progress of comprehension. Among the more obvious changes, this edition contains a new section on Kruskal space, another on the plane gravitational wave, and a third on linearized general relativity; it also contains many new exercises, and two appendices: one listing the curvature components for the diagonal metric (in a little more generality than the old" Dingle formulas "), and one syn?? thesizing Maxwell's theory in tensor form. But the most significant changes and additions have occurred throughout the text. Many sections have been completely rewritten, many arguments tightened, many "asides" added, and, of course, recent developments taken into account |
| ISBN,Price | 9783642866500 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. GRAVITATION
5. Mathematical Methods in Physics
6. MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
7. PHYSICS
8. Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics
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