Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 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 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 Acronyms and definitions
- Appendix B Useful results
- References
- Index
- References
References
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2015
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 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 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 Acronyms and definitions
- Appendix B Useful results
- References
- Index
- References
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- A Student's Manual for A First Course in General Relativity , pp. 303 - 304Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2016