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Essential Relativity

Special, General, and Cosmological

  • Textbook
  • © 1977

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Authors:
  1. Wolfgang Rindler

    1. The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, USA

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Part of the book series: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (TMP)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. The Rise and Fall of Absolute Space

    • Wolfgang Rindler
    Pages 1-22

  3. Einsteinian Kinematics

    • Wolfgang Rindler
    Pages 23-53

  4. Einsteinian Optics

    • Wolfgang Rindler
    Pages 54-60

  5. Spacetime and Four-Vectors

    • Wolfgang Rindler
    Pages 61-74

  6. Relativistic Particle Mechanics

    • Wolfgang Rindler
    Pages 75-95

  7. Relativity and Electrodynamics

    • Wolfgang Rindler
    Pages 96-104

  8. Basic Ideas of General Relativity

    • Wolfgang Rindler
    Pages 105-125

  9. Formal Development of General Relativity

    • Wolfgang Rindler
    Pages 126-192

  10. Cosmology

    • Wolfgang Rindler
    Pages 193-244

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 245-286
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About this book

In retrospect, the first edition of this book now seems like a mere sketch for a book. The present version is, if not the final product, at least a closer approximation to it. The table of contents may show little change. But that is simply because the original organization of the material has been found satisfactory. Also the basic purpose of the book remains the same, and that is to make relativity come alive conceptually. I have always felt much sym­ pathy with Richard Courant's maxim (as reported and exemplified by Pascual Jordan) that, ideally, proofs should be reached by comprehension rather than computation. Where computations are necessary, I have tried to make them as transparent as possible, so as not to hinder the progress of comprehension. Among the more obvious changes, this edition contains a new section on Kruskal space, another on the plane gravitational wave, and a third on linearized general relativity; it also contains many new exercises, and two appendices: one listing the curvature components for the diagonal metric (in a little more generality than the old" Dingle formulas "), and one syn­ thesizing Maxwell's theory in tensor form. But the most significant changes and additions have occurred throughout the text. Many sections have been completely rewritten, many arguments tightened, many "asides" added, and, of course, recent developments taken into account.

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  • The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, USA

    Wolfgang Rindler

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