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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This mathematically-oriented introduction takes the point of view that students should become familiar, at an early stage, with the physics of relativistic continua and thermodynamics within the framework of special relativity. Therefore, in addition to standard textbook topics such as relativistic kinematics and vacuum electrodynamics, the reader will be thoroughly introduced to relativistic continuum and fluid mechanics. Emphasis in the presentation is on the 3+1 splitting technique, widely used in general relativity for introducing the relative observers point of view.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"The authors of this textbook present the foundations of special relativistic continuum dynamics in all details. In this form, the presentation is quite unique, as almost all other texts on relativistic continuum mechanics do it on the level of general relativity. … The whole presentation is very clearly done, and has enough details, so that it can be used for a university teaching course on this topic." (Hans-Jürgen Schmidt, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1124 (4), 2008)
Editors and Affiliations
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Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo ‘Mauro Picone’ CNR, Viale del Policlinico, 137, Italy
G. Ferrarese
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Dipartimento di Matematica, Universit´ Roma La Sapienza, Piazzale Aldo Moro, 2, Italy
D. Bini
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Introduction to Relativistic Continuum Mechanics
Editors: G. Ferrarese, D. Bini
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73168-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-73166-5Published: 02 October 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-09218-3Published: 23 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-73168-9Published: 30 September 2007
Series ISSN: 0075-8450
Series E-ISSN: 1616-6361
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 340
Topics: Classical Mechanics, Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory, Differential Geometry, Solid Mechanics, Classical and Continuum Physics, Mathematical Methods in Physics