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Author Schutz, Bernard F.

Title A first course in general relativity / Bernard F. Schutz
Published Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1985

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Description xiv, 376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: 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 a curved spacetime -- 8. The Einstein field equations -- 9. Gravitational radiation -- 10. Spherical solutions for stars -- 11. Schwarzschild geometry and black holes -- 12. Cosmology -- Appendices -- References -- Index
Analysis Physics General theory of relativity
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [359]-365
Subject Astrophysics.
General relativity (Physics)
Astrophysics.
General relativity (Physics)
LC no. 83023205
ISBN 0521257700
0521277035 (paperback)