Lectures on General Relativity : – paperbound edition –
Lectures on General Relativity : – paperbound edition –
Do you want to know something of what more there is?
Do you wonder how the theory of relativity came into being?
Then this book is for you!
Partial contents:
- Black holes and gravitational collapse
- Cosmological solutions of Einstein's field equations
- Gravitational waves
- Space-time singularities
- The problem of motion for massive particles
- A collection of exact solutions of Einstein's field equations
- A history of Einstein's creation of the theory of relativity in the years 1905-1915
- A short course for repetition of the basics of general relativity
- Bibliography, references, and index
The book, although not very advanced, covers a number of topics not often seen in text books. The selection, of course, refelects my own interests. The different chapters may to a large extent, though not completely, be read in any desired order.
The author has a PhD in theoretical physics and is lecturer of mathematics. He has for many years taught physics and mathematics at senior high school as well as university level.