Lecture Notes on the General Theory of Relativity From Newton's Attractive Gravity to the Repulsive Gravity of Vacuum Energy /

• Main Author: Grn̜, <U+00d8>yvind. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 772
• Subjects: Physics.; Mathematical physics.; Astronomy.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-88134-8

This book has resulted from a course in the general theory of relativity at the University of Oslo where the author has lectured for more than twenty years. Although the text is designed for master students, it is rather self-contained. Since mathematics courses on differential geometry and tensor c...

Table of Contents:

• Newton<U+0019>s law of universal gravitation
• The special theory of relativity
• Vectors, tensors and forms
• Rotating and accelerated reference frames
• Covariant differentiation
• Curvature
• Einstein<U+0019>s field equations
• The Schwarschild spacetime
• Black holes
• Schwarzschild<U+0019>s interior solution
• Cosmology.