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- Accessible introduction for undergraduates and graduates alike
- Concise treatment but without sacrificing rigor
- Replete with worked examples, carefully designed exercises and online solutions
Part of the book series: Graduate Texts in Physics (GTP)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Special Relativity in Review
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Vectors and Tensors
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Book Title: General Relativity and Cosmology
Book Subtitle: A First Encounter
Authors: Ronald J. Adler
Series Title: Graduate Texts in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61574-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-61573-4Published: 23 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-61574-1Published: 22 January 2021
Series ISSN: 1868-4513
Series E-ISSN: 1868-4521
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 313
Number of Illustrations: 81 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cosmology, Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory, Mathematical Physics, Mathematical Methods in Physics