Gravitation : foundations and frontiers /
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| Author / Creator: | Padmanabhan, T. (Thanu), 1957- |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010. |
| Description: | xxviii, 700 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | Gravitation -- Textbooks. Relativity (Physics) -- Textbooks. Gravitation -- Problems, exercises, etc. Gravitation. Relativity (Physics) Problems and exercises. Textbooks. |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7994281 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Special relativity
- 2. Scalar and electromagnetic fields in special relativity
- 3. Gravity and spacetime geometry: the inescapable connection
- 4. Metric tensor, geodesics and covariant derivative
- 5. Curvature of spacetime
- 6. Einstein's field equations and gravitational dynamics
- 7. Spherically symmetric geometry
- 8. Black holes
- 9. Gravitational waves
- 10. Relativistic cosmology
- 11. Differential forms and exterior calculus
- 12. Hamiltonian structure of general relativity
- 13. Evolution of cosmological perturbations
- 14. Quantum field theory in curved spacetime
- 15. Gravity in higher and lower dimensions
- 16. Gravity as an emergent phenomenon
- Notes
- Index
