Relativity, Gravitation and Cosmology: A Basic Introduction
Einstein's general theory of relativity is introduced in this advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate level textbook. Topics include special relativity, in the formalism of Minkowski's four-dimensional space-time, the principle of equivalence, Riemannian geometry and tensor analysis, Einstein field equation, as well as many modern cosmological subjects, from primordial inflation and cosmic microwave anisotropy to the dark energy that propels an accelerating universe.\ The author...
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There are plenty of graduate textbooks on general relativity, points out Cheng (physics, U. of Missouri), and plenty of popular works describing in for lay readers. He offers an intermediate textbook for undergraduate students that can be used by instructors who are not themselves specialists in relativity. Students are expected to have the usual mathematics at the calculus level, some familiarity with matrices, and the physics of mechanics and electromagnetism including differential equations of Maxwell's theory. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Pt. IRelativity : metric description of spacetime1Introduction and overview32Special relativity and the flat spacetime143The principle of equivalence384Metric description of a curved space555GR as a geometric theory of gravity - I716Spacetime outside a spherical star87Pt. IICosmology7The homogeneous and isotropic universe1158The expanding universe and thermal relics1369Inflation and the accelerating universe16510Tensors in special relativity19711Tensors in general relativity21512GR as a geometric theory of gravity - II23313Linearized theory and gravitational waves250
