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Springer General Relativity And Cosmology A First Encounter 2021 Edition by Adler R.J.
Gravitational physics has now become a mainstream topic in physics and physics teaching. In particular cosmology and gravitational wave physics are at the focus of a great deal of current research. Thus it is important to introduce students to General Relativity as soon as reasonable. This textbook offers a brief but comprehensive treatment accessible to advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and any physicist or mathematician interested in understanding the material in a short time. The author, an experienced teacher of the subject, has included numerous examples and exercises to help students consolidate the ideas they have learned._x000D_ Table of contents :- Preface.- Part I: Special Relativity in Review.- Chapter 1. A brief stroll in special relativity.- Chapter 2. Lorentz transformations.- Chapter 3. The motion of particles.- Part II: Vectors and Tensors.- Chapter 4. Riemann spaces and tensors.- Chapter 5. Affine connections and geodesics.- Chapter 6. Tensor analysis.- Part III: General Relativity.- Chapter 7. Classical gravity and geometry.- Chapter 8. Curved space and gravity.- Chapter 9. Spherically symmetric gravitational fields.- Chapter 10. Black holes and gravitational collapse.- Chapter 11. Linearized general relativity and gravitational waves.- Part IV: Cosmology.- Chapter 12. The Einstein field equations for cosmology.- Chapter 13. The cosmological metric.- Chapter 14. The dynamical equations of cosmology.- Chapter 15. Solutions for the present universe.- Chapter 16. Some properties of the LCDM Universe.- Chapter 17. Earlier times and radiation.- Chapter 18. A brief historical overview of the universe.- Chapter 19. Inflation and basic questions.