Relativity Made Relatively Easy Pack, Volumes 1 and 2 (Paperback)
Volume 1: Relativity Made Relatively Easy, Volume 2: General Relativity and Cosmology
Published on 28. October 2021
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Multiple copy pack
960 pages
978-0-19-285679-1 (ISBN)
Description
The two-volume book Relativity Made Relatively Easy provides a comprehensive and detailed account of the physics of Relativity. Volume 1, which was published in 2012, is devoted to covering the basics of the theory of Special Relativity, assuming almost no prior knowledge, making it suitable for undergraduates studying the subject.
Volume 2 encourages students to take their learning further by providing a working understanding of astronomy and gravitational waves, as well as introducing the reader to the key concepts in cosmology and classical field theory. Beginning with a survey of the main ideas, the text goes on to give the methodological foundations (linearized approximation, differential geometry, covariant differentiation, physics in curved spacetime). It covers the generic properties of horizons and black holes,
including Hawking radiation, introduces the key concepts in cosmology and gives a grounding in classical field theory, including spinors and the Dirac equation, and a Lagrangian approach to General Relativity.
The book is suitable for self-study and is aimed throughout at clarity, physical insight, and simplicity, presenting explanations and derivations in full, and providing many explicit examples.
Volume 2 encourages students to take their learning further by providing a working understanding of astronomy and gravitational waves, as well as introducing the reader to the key concepts in cosmology and classical field theory. Beginning with a survey of the main ideas, the text goes on to give the methodological foundations (linearized approximation, differential geometry, covariant differentiation, physics in curved spacetime). It covers the generic properties of horizons and black holes,
including Hawking radiation, introduces the key concepts in cosmology and gives a grounding in classical field theory, including spinors and the Dirac equation, and a Lagrangian approach to General Relativity.
The book is suitable for self-study and is aimed throughout at clarity, physical insight, and simplicity, presenting explanations and derivations in full, and providing many explicit examples.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
307 line drawings and halftones
Dimensions
Height: 247 mm
Width: 190 mm
Thickness: 47 mm
Weight
1918 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-285679-1 (9780192856791)
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Person
Andrew Steane is a Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford. He has conducted experimental and theoretical research into the foundations of physics and has performed pioneering quantum experiments with ultra-cold atomic clouds, as well as establishing the ion trap quantum computing program at Oxford. Professor Steane discovered quantum error correction and the CSS (Calderbank Shor Steane) codes and he is a recipient of the Maxwell Medal and Prize of the
Institute of Physics, and the Trotter Prize of Texas A&M University. He regularly lectures on relativity and other areas of physics and has published two undergraduate physics textbooks and two books on science and religion with Oxford University Press.
Institute of Physics, and the Trotter Prize of Texas A&M University. He regularly lectures on relativity and other areas of physics and has published two undergraduate physics textbooks and two books on science and religion with Oxford University Press.
Content
Volume 1
Part I: The Relativistic World
1: Basic ideas
2: The Lorentz transformation
3: Moving light sources
4: Dynamics
5: The conservation of energy-momentum
6: Further kinematics
7: Relativity and electromagnetism
8: Electromagnetic radiation
Part II: An Introduction to General Relativity
9: The Principle of equivalence
10: Warped spacetime
11: Physics from the metric
Part III: Further Special Relativity
12: Tensors and index notation
13: Rediscovering electromagnetism
14: Lagrangian mechanics
15: Angular momentum
16: Energy density
17: What is spacetime?
Volume 2: General Relativity and Cosmology
1: Preface
2: Terminology and notation
3: The elements of general relativity
4: An introductory example: the uniform static field
5: Life in a rotating world
6: Linearized general relativity
7: Slow stationary sources
8: Gravitational waves
9: Manifolds
10: Vectors on manifolds
11: The affine connection
12: Further useful ideas
13: Tensors
14: Parallel transport and geodesics
15: Physics in curved spacetime
16: Curvature
17: The Einstein field equation
18: Schwarzschild-Droste solution
19: Further spherically symmetric solutions
20: Rotating bodies; the Kerr metric
21: Black holes
22: Black hole thermodynamics
23: Cosmology
24: Cosmological dynamics
25: The growth of structure
26: Observational cosmology
27: The very early universe
28: First steps in classical field theory
29: Lagrangian mechanics for fields
30: Conclusion
Part I: The Relativistic World
1: Basic ideas
2: The Lorentz transformation
3: Moving light sources
4: Dynamics
5: The conservation of energy-momentum
6: Further kinematics
7: Relativity and electromagnetism
8: Electromagnetic radiation
Part II: An Introduction to General Relativity
9: The Principle of equivalence
10: Warped spacetime
11: Physics from the metric
Part III: Further Special Relativity
12: Tensors and index notation
13: Rediscovering electromagnetism
14: Lagrangian mechanics
15: Angular momentum
16: Energy density
17: What is spacetime?
Volume 2: General Relativity and Cosmology
1: Preface
2: Terminology and notation
3: The elements of general relativity
4: An introductory example: the uniform static field
5: Life in a rotating world
6: Linearized general relativity
7: Slow stationary sources
8: Gravitational waves
9: Manifolds
10: Vectors on manifolds
11: The affine connection
12: Further useful ideas
13: Tensors
14: Parallel transport and geodesics
15: Physics in curved spacetime
16: Curvature
17: The Einstein field equation
18: Schwarzschild-Droste solution
19: Further spherically symmetric solutions
20: Rotating bodies; the Kerr metric
21: Black holes
22: Black hole thermodynamics
23: Cosmology
24: Cosmological dynamics
25: The growth of structure
26: Observational cosmology
27: The very early universe
28: First steps in classical field theory
29: Lagrangian mechanics for fields
30: Conclusion