Lectures on gravitation [[electronic resource] /] / Ashok Das
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| Autore: |
Das Ashok <1953->
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| Titolo: |
Lectures on gravitation [[electronic resource] /] / Ashok Das
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| Pubblicazione: | Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, c2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (351 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 531.14 |
| Soggetto topico: | General relativity (Physics) |
| Big bang theory | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. vii) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Preface; Contents; 1 Basics of geometry and relativity; 2 Relativistic dynamics; 3 Principle of general covariance; 4 Affine connection and covariant derivative; 5 Geodesic equation; 6 Applications of the geodesic equation; 7 Curvature tensor and Einstein's equation; 8 Schwarzschild solution; 9 Tests of general relativity; 10 Black holes; 11 Cosmological models and the big bang theory; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This book is a compilation of the lectures for a one-semester course on gravitation at the University of Rochester. Starting from a simple description of geometry, the topics are systematically developed to the big bang theory with a simple derivation of the cosmic background temperature. Several informative examples are worked out in detail as well. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Lectures on gravitation |
| ISBN: | 1-283-14862-5 |
| 9786613148629 | |
| 981-4329-39-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910819225403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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