Category: Relativity

By José Natário, Leonor Godinho

ISBN-10: 3319086669

ISBN-13: 9783319086668

Not like many different texts on differential geometry, this textbook additionally deals fascinating purposes to geometric mechanics and normal relativity.

The first half is a concise and self-contained creation to the fundamentals of manifolds, differential types, metrics and curvature. the second one half experiences purposes to mechanics and relativity together with the proofs of the Hawking and Penrose singularity theorems. it may be independently used for one-semester classes in both of those subjects.

The major rules are illustrated and additional built by means of a variety of examples and over three hundred workouts. designated strategies are supplied for lots of of those workouts, making An advent to Riemannian Geometry excellent for self-study.

By Russell Stannard

ISBN-10: 0199236224

ISBN-13: 9780199236220

If you happen to flow at excessive velocity, time slows down, area squashes up and also you get heavier. trip quick sufficient and also you might weigh up to a jumbo jet, be flattened thinner than a CD with no feeling a thing-and reside without end! As for the angles of a triangle, they don't regularly need to upload as much as a hundred and eighty levels. after which, after all, there are black holes. those are yet some of the awesome effects of Einstein's thought of relativity. it really is now over 100 years considering he made those discoveries, and but most of the people continues to be mostly ignorant of them. packed with illuminating anecdotes and engaging money owed of experiments, this publication goals to introduce the lay individual to the topic of relativity in a manner that is available and fascinating and while scientifically rigorous. With particularly few mathematical equations--nothing extra advanced than the Pythagoras's Theorem--this VSI packs much time into little or no area, and for an individual who has felt intimidated by way of Einstein's groundbreaking concept, it deals the proper position to begin.

By Jerzy Plebanski, Andrzej Krasinski

ISBN-10: 052185623X

ISBN-13: 9780521856232

Basic relativity is a cornerstone of contemporary physics, and is of significant value in its purposes to cosmology. Plebanski and Krasinski are specialists within the box and supply a radical advent to normal relativity, guiding the reader via whole derivations of crucial effects. offering assurance from a special point of view, geometrical, actual and astrophysical homes of inhomogeneous cosmological versions are all systematically and obviously awarded, permitting the reader to keep on with and confirm all derivations. Many themes are incorporated that aren't present in different textbooks.

By Thomas Ryckman

ISBN-10: 0195177177

ISBN-13: 9780195177176

Ryckman's booklet is a superb paintings choked with novel insights. Ryckman single-handedly revives the non-positivist "transcendental philosophy" insights of early discussions of normal Relativity idea. a lot of this suggestive perception and interpretation was once misplaced with the triumph of the logical positivist (later logical empiricist) appropriation of Einstein's relativity concept as displaying that Kant's a priori and transcendental philosophy used to be overthrown by means of Einstein. Schlick and later Hans Reichenbach turned the "standard" interpreters of normal Relativity concept by means of the top of the Thirties. Later American philosophers of technological know-how, resembling Adolph Gruenbaum and Wesley Salmon, even the place now not agreeing with all claims of Reichenbach, a great deal his lead and tended to brush aside the neo-Kantian and phenomenological interpretations that have been built via eu thinkers referring to relativity concept.
Ryckman discusses the paintings on unified box theories of mathematician Herman Weyl and the physicist Arthur Eddington, in addition to the philosophical interpretations of common relativity via Ernst Cassirer and Emile Meyerson between others. Ryckman's snatch of either Husserl's phenomenology and of the suitable differential geometry is superb.
His lengthy sections on Herman Weyl are vastly informative and illuminating. i believe Ryckman's interpretations of Eddington as a "transcendental thinker" within the conventional experience of Kant and Husserl are a little a stretch, even though, as Eddington's philosophical tours have been greatly seat of the pants. however Ryckman persuasively discredits these, like Susan Stebbing, who ridiculed Eddington's philosophical interpretations with no figuring out the physics and arithmetic that led him to them.
A minor yet major weak point is Ryckman's absolutely downplaying and brushing aside the impact of the German romantic idealist Fichte on Weyl's interpretation of box conception and topic, claiming that Weyl used to be simply in Fichte spiritual notion. in reality Erhard Scholz has made a good documented case in a number of articles that not just Husserl yet Fichte was once a really robust impact on Weyl's interpretations, and Weyl says so himself in his autobiographical reminiscences.
Overall Ryckman's paintings is a phenomenal contribution and that i desire it is going to revive curiosity in phenomenological philosophy of physics between physicists in addition to Anglo-American philosophers.

By Palle Yourgrau

ISBN-10: 0465092934

ISBN-13: 9780465092932

By Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat

ISBN-10: 0191644528

ISBN-13: 9780191644528

ISBN-10: 0199666466

ISBN-13: 9780199666461

Basic Relativity is a gorgeous geometric conception, uncomplicated in its mathematical formula yet resulting in a variety of results with amazing actual interpretations: gravitational waves, black holes, cosmological versions, and so forth.

This introductory textbook is written for arithmetic scholars attracted to physics and physics scholars attracted to targeted mathematical formulations (or for a person with a systematic brain who's curious to understand extra of the realm we are living in), fresh outstanding experimental and observational effects which ensure the idea are essentially defined and no specialized physics wisdom is needed. The mathematical point of half A is aimed toward undergraduate scholars and will be the root for a path on normal Relativity. half B is extra complicated, yet nonetheless doesn't require subtle arithmetic.

Based on Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat's extra complex textual content, common Relativity and the Einstein Equations, the purpose of this e-book is to provide with precision, yet as easily as attainable, the rules and major results of basic Relativity. the 1st 5 chapters from normal Relativity and the Einstein Equations were up to date with new sections and chapters on black holes, gravitational waves, singularities, and the Reissner-Nordstrom and inside Schwarzchild ideas.

The rigour in the back of this ebook will supply readers with the proper practise to keep on with the nice mathematical growth within the real improvement, in addition to the power to version, the newest astrophysical and cosmological observations. The booklet offers easy common Relativity and offers a foundation for knowing and utilizing the basic theory.

By Arthur Eddington

ISBN-10: 1406770957

ISBN-13: 9781406770957

A few of the earliest books, rather these courting again to the 1900s and ahead of, at the moment are tremendous scarce and more and more pricey. we're republishing those vintage works in reasonable, prime quality, glossy versions, utilizing the unique textual content and paintings.

By Albert Einstein

ISBN-10: 0517029618

ISBN-13: 9780517029619

Redesigned in and out to have a clean, attractive glance, this re-creation of a vintage Crown exchange Paperback is a set of Einstein's personal well known writings on his paintings and describes the that means of his major theories in a manner almost each person can comprehend. From the alternate Paperback variation.

By H. Kleinert, et al.,

By Christoph Schiller

A contemporary creation to physics,captivating, basic, with many color images, animations and flicks, riddles and challenges.It covers mechanics, thermodynamics, relativity, quantum physics and smooth makes an attempt at unification.