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Essential Relativity

Special, General, and Cosmological

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  1. Wolfgang Rindler

    1. Southwest Center for Advanced Studies, Dallas, USA

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

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

    • Wolfgang Rindler
    Pages 1-28

  3. Einsteinian Kinematics

    • Wolfgang Rindler
    Pages 29-67

  4. Einsteinian Optics

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    Pages 68-77

  5. Spacetime and Four-Vectors

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    Pages 78-94

  6. Relativistic Particle Mechanics

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    Pages 95-119

  7. Relativity Electrodynamics

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    Pages 120-129

  8. Basic Ideas of General Relativity

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    Pages 130-154

  9. Formal Development of General Relativity

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    Pages 155-212

  10. Cosmology

    • Wolfgang Rindler
    Pages 213-274

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 275-319
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About this book

This book is an attempt to bring the full range of relativity theory within reach of advanced undergraduates, while containing enough new material and simplifications of old arguments so as not to bore the expert teacher. Roughly equal coverage is given tospecial relativity, general relativity, and cosmology. With many judicious omissions it can be taught in one semester, but it would better serve as the basis of a year's work. It is my hope, anyway, that its level and style of presentation may appeal also to wider c1asses of readers unrestricted by credit considerations. General relativity, the modern theory of gravitation in which free particles move along "straightest possible" lines in curved spacetime, and cosmology, with its dynamics for the whole possibly curved uni­ verse, not only seem necessary for a scientist's balanced view of the world, but offer some of the greatest intellectual thrills of modern physics. Nevertheless, considered luxuries, they are usu­ ally squeezed out of the graduate curriculum by the pressure of specialization. Special relativity escapes this tag with a ven­ geance, and tends to be taught as a pure service discipline, with too little emphasis on its startling ideas. What better time, there­ fore, to enjoy these subjects for their own sake than as an und- v vi PREFACE graduate? In spite of its forbidding mathematical reputation, even general relativity is accessible at that stage.
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Southwest Center for Advanced Studies, Dallas, USA

    Wolfgang Rindler

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Essential Relativity

  • Book Subtitle: Special, General, and Cosmological

  • Authors: Wolfgang Rindler

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1135-6

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1969

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-1135-6Published: 17 April 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 319

  • Number of Illustrations: 39 b/w illustrations

  • Additional Information: Originally published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company

  • Topics: Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory, Mathematical Methods in Physics, Biochemistry, general

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