Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 NEWTONIAN GRAVITATION
- 2 MINKOWSKI SPACE–TIME
- 3 THE RELATIVISTIC FORM OF PHYSICAL LAWS
- 4 GRAVITATION AND SPECIAL RELATIVITY
- 5 ELECTROMAGNETISM AND RELATIVISTIC HYDRODYNAMICS
- 6 WHAT IS CURVED SPACE?
- 7 THE PRINCIPLE OF EQUIVALENCE
- 8 EINSTEIN'S RELATIVISTIC GRAVITATION (GENERAL RELATIVITY)
- Appendix A Tensors
- Appendix B Exterior Differential Forms
- Appendix C Variational Form of the Field Equations
- Appendix D The Concept of a Manifold
- References
- Physical Constants
4 - GRAVITATION AND SPECIAL RELATIVITY
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 NEWTONIAN GRAVITATION
- 2 MINKOWSKI SPACE–TIME
- 3 THE RELATIVISTIC FORM OF PHYSICAL LAWS
- 4 GRAVITATION AND SPECIAL RELATIVITY
- 5 ELECTROMAGNETISM AND RELATIVISTIC HYDRODYNAMICS
- 6 WHAT IS CURVED SPACE?
- 7 THE PRINCIPLE OF EQUIVALENCE
- 8 EINSTEIN'S RELATIVISTIC GRAVITATION (GENERAL RELATIVITY)
- Appendix A Tensors
- Appendix B Exterior Differential Forms
- Appendix C Variational Form of the Field Equations
- Appendix D The Concept of a Manifold
- References
- Physical Constants
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- An Introduction to Relativistic Gravitation , pp. 95 - 102Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1999