Gravitation : Foundations and Frontiers.
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| Author / Creator: | Padmanabhan, T. |
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| Imprint: | Leiden : Cambridge University Press, 2010. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (730 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11824166 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of exercises; List of projects; Preface; How to use this book; 1 Special relativity; 2 Scalar and electromagnetic fields in special relativity; 3 Gravity and spacetime geometry: the inescapable connection; 4 Metric tensor, geodesics and covariant derivative; 5 Curvature of spacetime; 6 Einstein's field equations and gravitational dynamics; 7 Spherically symmetric geometry; 8 Black holes; 9 Gravitational waves; 10 Relativistic cosmology; 11 Differential forms and exterior calculus; 12 Hamiltonian structure of general relativity.
- 13 Evolution of cosmological perturbations14 Quantum field theory in curved spacetime; 15 Gravity in higher and lower dimensions; 16 Gravity as an emergent phenomenon; Notes; Index.