Gravity, Black Holes, and the Very Early Universe An Introduction to General Relativity and Cosmology /

In the early 1900s, Albert Einstein formulated two theories that would forever change the landscape of physics: the Special Theory of Relativity and the General Theory of Relativity. By 1925, quantum mechanics had been born out of the dissection of these two theories, and shortly after that, relativ...

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Main Author: Chow, Tai L. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
Edition:1st ed. 2008.
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73631-0
Table of Contents:
  • Basic Ideas of General Relativity
  • Curvilinear Coordinates and General Tensors
  • Einstein's Law of Gravitation
  • The Schwarzschild Solution
  • Experimental Tests of Einstein's Theory
  • The Physics of Black Holes
  • to Cosmology
  • Big Bang Models
  • Particles, Forces, and Unification of Forces
  • The Inflationary Universe
  • The Physics of the Very Early Universe.