Flat And Curved Space-times Second Edition

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Subject Area: Applied Mathematics
Publication Name: FLAT AND CURVED SPACE-TIMES second edition
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Science
Publication Year: 2008
Type: Textbook
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Author: George F. R. Ellis & Ruth M. Williams
Educational Level: Adult & Further Education
Level: Intermediate
Item Height: 23.4cm
Item Length: 15.6cm
Item Width: 2.4cm
Item Weight: 0.60kg
Number of Pages: 386
Country of Origin: United States
ISBN: 9780198506560

This book aims to explain the basic features of relativity in detail, emphasizing the geometric aspects by using lots of diagrams, and assuming no knowledge of advanced mathematics. Appendices enable the serious sudent to master the application of four-tensors to the relativistic study of energy and momentum, and of electromagnetism.

The new edition of this popular textbook contains up-to-date information on black holes, gravitational collapse, and cosmology.

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