TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cheng,Ta-Pei
TI  - Relativity, gravitation and cosmology: a basic introduction 
T2  - Oxford master series in particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology
SN  - 9780191574429
AV  - QC173 .R453 2010
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - General relativity (Physics)
KW  - Textbooks
KW  - Space and time
KW  - Gravity
KW  - Cosmology
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; I. Preliminaries --; 1. Introduction and Overview --; 2. Special relativity: the basics --; II. Relativity --; Metric Description of Spacetime --; 3. Special relativity: the geometric formulation --; 4. Principle of equivalence --; 5. Metric description of a curved space --; 6. GR as a geometric theory of gravity --; I --; 7. Spherically symmetric spacetime --; GR tests --; 8. Black holes --; III. Cosmology --; 9. Homogeneous and isotropic universe --; 10. Expanding universe and thermal relics --; 11. Inflation and the accelerating universe --; IV. Relativity --; Full Tensor Formulation --; 12. Tensors in special relativity --; 13. Tensors in general relativity --; 14. GR as a geometric theory of gravity --; II --; 15. Linearized theory and gravitational waves --; Physical constants; 2; b
N2  - An introduction to Einstein's general theory of relativity, this work is structured so that interesting applications, such as gravitational lensing, black holes and cosmology, can be presented without the readers having to first learn the difficult mathematics of tensor calculus
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