Dick, Rainer, <br/><br/>
Special and general relativity :  an introduction to spacetime and gravitation / 
 Introduction to spacetime and gravitation. 
Rainer Dick. 
 - 1 online resource (various pagings) :  illustrations (chiefly color). 
 - [IOP release 5] IOP concise physics,  2053-2571 .
 - IOP (Series).  Release 5. IOP concise physics. .
<br/><br/> "Version: 20190102"--Title page verso.  "A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>1. Why relativity? -- 1.1. The Galilei invariance of Newtonian mechanics -- 1.2. The need for special relativity -- 1.3. The need for general relativity 2. A first look at notions from geometry -- 2.1. Vectors and tensors -- 2.2. Curvilinear coordinates 3. The tangents of spacetime : special relativity -- 3.1. Lorentz transformations and the relativity of space and time -- 3.2. Consequences of Lorentz symmetry -- 3.3. The general Lorentz transformation 4. Relativistic dynamics -- 4.1. Energy-momentum vectors and the relativistic Newton equation -- 4.2. The manifestly covariant formulation of electrodynamics -- 4.3. Action principles for relativistic particles -- 4.4. Current densities and stre 5. Differential geometry : the kinematics of curved spacetime -- 5.1. More geometry : surfaces in R3 -- 5.2. Covariant derivatives and Christoffel symbols -- 5.3. Transformations of tensors and Christoffel symbols 6. Particles in curved spacetime -- 6.1. Motion of a particle in spacetime -- 6.2. Slow particles in a weak gravitational field -- 6.3. Local inertial frames -- 6.4. Symmetric spaces and conservation laws 7. The dynamics of spacetime : the Einstein equation -- 7.1. Geodesic deviation and curvature -- 7.2. The Einstein equation -- 7.3. The Schwarzschild metric : The gravitational field outside a non-rotating star -- 7.4. The interior of Schwarzsch 8. Massive particles in the Schwarzschild spacetime -- 8.1. Massive particles in t-independent radially symmetric spacetimes -- 8.2. Radial motion in terms of the effective potential -- 8.3. The shape of the trajectory -- 8.4. Clocks in the Schw 9. Massless particles in the Schwarzschild spacetime -- 9.1. Equations of motion -- 9.2. Deflection of light in a gravitational field -- 9.3. Apparent photon speeds and radial infall. 
<br/><br/> This book provides a concise introduction to both the special theory of relativity and the general theory of relativity. The format is chosen to provide the basis for a single semester course which can take the students all the way from the foun 
<br/><br/> Science and engineering undergrad, introduction for graduate students. 
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<br/><br/><br/>Rainer Dick studied physics at the Universities in Stuttgart, Karlsruhe and Hamburg, and received a PhD degree from the University of Hamburg in 1990. He worked at the University of Munich and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton before 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781643273808 9781643273778 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.1088/2053-2571/aaf173  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Space and time.<br/>Gravitation.<br/>Special relativity (Physics)<br/>General relativity (Physics)<br/>Astrophysics.<br/>SCIENCE / Physics / Astrophysics.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QC173.59.S65  / D537 2019eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>530.1/1