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Title Problem book in relativity and gravitation / Alan P. Lightman ... [and others]
Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1975]

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Description xiv, 599 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Includes bibliographical references
Special-relativistic kinematics -- Special-relativistic dynamics -- Special-relativistic coordinate transformations, invariants and tensors -- Electromagnetism -- Matter and radiation -- Metrics -- Covariant differentiation and geodesic curves -- Differential geometry : further concepts -- Curvature -- Killing vectors and symmetries -- Angular momentum -- Gravitation generally -- Gravitational field equations and linearized theory -- Physics in curved spacetime -- The Schwarzschild geometry -- Spherical symmetry and relativistic stellar structure -- Black holes -- Gravitational radiation -- Cosmology -- Experimental tests -- Miscellaneous
With answers
Analysis Physics Relativity
Notes Includes index
Subject Astrophysics -- Problems, exercises, etc.
Gravitation -- Problems, exercises, etc.
Relativity (Physics) -- Problems, exercises, etc.
Genre/Form Problems and exercises.
Author Lightman, Alan P., 1948-
LC no. 74025630
ISBN 0691081603
(paperback)