Relativity: Special, General, and Cosmological - Softcover
This text is a considerable amplification and modernization of the authors' earlier Essential Relativity. It brings relativity alive conceptually and emphasizes the foundations and the logical subtleties rather than the mathematics or the detailed experiments. It includes 300 exercises and promotes a visceral understanding and the confidence to tackle any fundamental relativistic problem. Following a critical overview of the whole field, special-relativistic kinematics is presented three dimensionally before the mathematical level gradually rises. Four vectors preceded mechanics, four tensors precede Maxwell theory, and three chapters on cosmology end the text. This book brings the challenge and excitement of modern relativity and cosmology at a rigorous mathematical level within the reach of advanced undergraduates, while containing enough new material to interest lecturers and researchers.
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"A textbook for graduate or advanced undergraduate physics students who are familiar with calculus up to partial differentiation, ordinary vector, and the binomial theorem. Rindler (physics, U. of Texas-Dallas) has essentially rewritten his earlier Essential Relativity to account for the growing sophistication and inquisitiveness about relativity in mainstream physics. He does not provide a bibliography."--SciTech Book News
"This book should be on the shelf of all who are intrigued by the startling modern advances in our understanding of space and time."--American Journal of Physics
Prof. Wolfgang Rindler, Dept of Physics, The University of Texas at Dallas, Email: wrindler@iopener.net, Phone: (972) 387 9768, Fax: (972) 883 2848
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"A textbook for graduate or advanced undergraduate physics students who are familiar with calculus up to partial differentiation, ordinary vector, and the binomial theorem. Rindler (physics, U. of Texas-Dallas) has essentially rewritten his earlier Essential Relativity to account for the growing sophistication and inquisitiveness about relativity in mainstream physics. He does not provide a bibliography."--SciTech Book News
"This book should be on the shelf of all who are intrigued by the startling modern advances in our understanding of space and time."--American Journal of Physics
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0198508360
- ISBN 13 9780198508366
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages442
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