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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 April 2013
      08 April 2013
      ISBN:
      9781139003391
      9781107012943
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139003391
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 187 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.18kg, 546 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Physics and Astronomy, Cosmology, Relativity and Gravitation
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    The third edition of this classic textbook is a quantitative introduction for advanced undergraduates and graduate students. It gently guides students from Newton's gravitational theory to special relativity, and then to the relativistic theory of gravitation. General relativity is approached from several perspectives: as a theory constructed by analogy with Maxwell's electrodynamics, as a relativistic generalization of Newton's theory, and as a theory of curved spacetime. The authors provide a concise overview of the important concepts and formulas, coupled with the experimental results underpinning the latest research in the field. Numerous exercises in Newtonian gravitational theory and Maxwell's equations help students master essential concepts for advanced work in general relativity, while detailed spacetime diagrams encourage them to think in terms of four-dimensional geometry. Featuring comprehensive reviews of recent experimental and observational data, the text concludes with chapters on cosmology and the physics of the Big Bang and inflation.

    Reviews

    ‘A most welcome updated third edition of this splendid textbook on gravitation and spacetime, which provides an excellent introduction to the mathematical and physical foundations underlying our current understanding of the physics and astrophysics of neutron stars, black holes, and gamma ray bursts.’

    Riccardo Giacconi - Nobel Laureate and University Professor, Johns Hopkins University

    ‘This is by far the best grad[uate] level text in gravitational physics. It starts by showing that the natural Lorentz invariant generalisation of Newton’s scalar potential is a tensor, a perturbation of the usual Lorentz metric. The equivalence principle is then used to derive the full equations of GR. The last half of the book gives a beautiful treatment of black holes and the current model of Big Bang cosmology.’

    Roy P. Kerr - Professor Emeritus, University of Canterbury, Christchurch

    ‘The third edition of this wonderful book combines even more perfectly than the previous editions the beauty of Einstein’s General Relativity with the physics of stars, galaxies, and the cosmos. It manages to do this in only 500 pages in a pedagogical masterpiece that should be a must for any graduate student in theoretical physics.’

    Hagen Kleinert - Freie Universität Berlin and ICRANet

    Review of the first edition:‘The best book on the market today of 500 pages or less on gravitation and general relativity.’

    John Wheeler - Princeton University

    'I wish I had owned this book when I was trying to teach myself General Relativity for the first time.'

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