Spacetime and geometry : an introduction to general relativity / Sean Carroll.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carroll, Sean, 1966-

Contributor:

Jessie A. Rodman Fund.

Craig M. Merrihue Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

General relativity (Physics).

Physical Description:

xiv, 513 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Introduction to general relativity

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Addison Wesley, [2004]

Summary:

Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity provides a lucid and thoroughly modern introduction to general relativity. With an accessible and lively writing style, it introduces modern techniques to what can often be a formal and intimidating subject. Readers are led from the physics of flat spacetime (special relativity), through the intricacies of differential geometry and Einstein's equations, and on to exciting applications such as black holes, gravitational radiation, and cosmology.

Contents:

1. Special relativity and flat spacetime

2. Manifolds

3. Curvature

4. Gravitation

5. The Schwarzschild solution

6. More general black holes

7. Pertubation theory and gravitational radiation

8. Cosmology

9. Quantum field theory in curved spacetime

Appendixes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 495-499) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Jessie A. Rodman Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Craig M. Merrihue Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0805387323

9780805387322

OCLC:

53245141