Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the second edition
- Preface to the first edition
- 1 Special relativity
- 2 Vector analysis in special relativity
- 3 Tensor analysis in special relativity
- 4 Perfect fluids in special relativity
- 5 Preface to curvature
- 6 Curved manifolds
- 7 Physics in a curved spacetime
- 8 The Einstein field equations
- 9 Gravitational radiation
- 10 Spherical solutions for stars
- 11 Schwarzschild geometry and black holes
- 12 Cosmology
- Appendix A Summary of linear algebra
- References
- Index
Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the second edition
- Preface to the first edition
- 1 Special relativity
- 2 Vector analysis in special relativity
- 3 Tensor analysis in special relativity
- 4 Perfect fluids in special relativity
- 5 Preface to curvature
- 6 Curved manifolds
- 7 Physics in a curved spacetime
- 8 The Einstein field equations
- 9 Gravitational radiation
- 10 Spherical solutions for stars
- 11 Schwarzschild geometry and black holes
- 12 Cosmology
- Appendix A Summary of linear algebra
- References
- Index
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- A First Course in General Relativity , pp. i - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009