Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 The spacetime of special relativity
- 2 Manifolds and coordinates
- 3 Vector calculus on manifolds
- 4 Tensor calculus on manifolds
- 5 Special relativity revisited
- 6 Electromagnetism
- 7 The equivalence principle and spacetime curvature
- 8 The gravitational field equations
- 9 The Schwarzschild geometry
- 10 Experimental tests of general relativity
- 11 Schwarzschild black holes
- 12 Further spherically symmetric geometries
- 13 The Kerr geometry
- 14 The Friedmann–Robertson–Walker geometry
- 15 Cosmological models
- 16 Inflationary cosmology
- 17 Linearised general relativity
- 18 Gravitational waves
- 19 A variational approach to general relativity
- Bibliography
- Index
5 - Special relativity revisited
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 The spacetime of special relativity
- 2 Manifolds and coordinates
- 3 Vector calculus on manifolds
- 4 Tensor calculus on manifolds
- 5 Special relativity revisited
- 6 Electromagnetism
- 7 The equivalence principle and spacetime curvature
- 8 The gravitational field equations
- 9 The Schwarzschild geometry
- 10 Experimental tests of general relativity
- 11 Schwarzschild black holes
- 12 Further spherically symmetric geometries
- 13 The Kerr geometry
- 14 The Friedmann–Robertson–Walker geometry
- 15 Cosmological models
- 16 Inflationary cosmology
- 17 Linearised general relativity
- 18 Gravitational waves
- 19 A variational approach to general relativity
- Bibliography
- Index
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- General RelativityAn Introduction for Physicists, pp. 111 - 134Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006
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