Loading...
Deal Detail
A Student\'s Guide to General Relativity: (Student\'s Guides)
This compact guide presents the key features of general relativity, to support and supplement the presentation in mainstream, more comprehensive undergraduate textbooks, or as a re-cap of essentials for graduate students pursuing more advanced studies. It helps students plot a careful path to understanding the core ideas and basics of differential geometry, as applied to general relativity, without overwhelming them. While the guide doesn\'t shy away from necessary technicalities, it emphasises the essential simplicity of the main physical arguments. Presuming a familiarity with special relativity (with a brief account in an appendix), it describes how general covariance and the equivalence principle motivate Einstein\'s theory of gravitation. It then introduces differential geometry and the covariant derivative as the mathematical technology which allows us to understand Einstein\'s equations of general relativity. The book is supported by numerous worked exampled and problems, and important applications of general relativity are described in an appendix. Worked examples or Exercises; 1 Tables, black and white; 1 Halftones, black and white; 28 Line drawings, black and white

£17.99

Share this deal

Similar Deals

 
Product

Duck Call

£10.00

 
Product

Skratch Labs The Feed Zone Cookbook

£21.99

From Tredz

 
Product

Scrambles in Ulster and Connact Book

£12.99

 
Product

Canoe Camping Book

£16.99

 
Product

Donegal Sligo Leitrim Book

£12.99

 
Product

Sea Kayak Book

£15.99

 
Product

Sit-On-Top Kayak Book

£9.99

 
Product

Sea Kayak Navigation Book

£11.99