General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics write by Norbert Straumann. This book was released on 2012-12-06. General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1979 I gave graduate courses at the University of Zurich and lectured in the 'Troisieme Cycle de la Suisse Romande' (a consortium offour uni versities in the french-speaking part of Switzerland), and these lectures were the basis of the 'Springer Lecture Notes in Physics', Volume 150, published in 1981. This text appeared in German, because there have been few modern expositions of the general theory of relativity in the mother tongue of its only begetter. Soon after the book appeared, W. Thirring asked me to prepare an English edition for the 'Texts and Mono graphs in Physics'. Fortunately E. Borie agreed to translate the original German text into English. An excellent collaboration allowed me to re vise and add to the contents of the book. I have updated and improved the original text and have added a number of new sections, mostly on astrophysical topics. In particular, in collaboration with M. Camenzind I have included a chapter on spherical and disk accretion onto compact objects. This book divides into three parts. Part I develops the mathematical tools used in the general theory of relativity. Since I wanted to keep this part short, but reasonably self-contained, I have adopted the dry style of most modern mathematical texts. Readers who have never before been confronted with differential geometry will find the exposition too ab stract and will miss motivations of the basic concepts and constructions.
Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology
Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology write by Peter Hoyng. This book was released on 2007-01-10. Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology offers a succinct and self-contained treatment of general relativity and its application to compact objects, gravitational waves and cosmology. The required mathematical concepts are introduced informally, following geometrical intuition as much as possible. The approach is theoretical, but there is ample discussion of observational aspects and of instrumental issues where appropriate. The book includes such topical issues as the Gravity Probe B mission, interferometer detectors of gravitational waves, and the physics behind the angular power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Written for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students in (astro)physics, it is ideally suited for a lecture course and contains 140 exercises with extensive hints. The reader is assumed to be familiar with linear algebra and analysis, ordinary differential equations, special relativity, and basic thermal physics.
General Relativity, Astrophysics, and Cosmology
General Relativity, Astrophysics, and Cosmology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook General Relativity, Astrophysics, and Cosmology write by A.K. Raychaudhuri. This book was released on 2003-11-14. General Relativity, Astrophysics, and Cosmology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For about half a century the general theory of relativity attracted little attention from physicists. However, the discovery of compact objects such as quasars and pulsars, as well as candidates for black holes on the one hand, and the microwave background radiation on the other hand completely changed the picture. In addition, developments in elementary particle physics, such as predictions of the behavior of matter at the ultrahigh energies that might have prevailed in the early stages of the big bang, have greatly en hanced the interest in general relativity. These developments created a large body of readers interested in general relativity, and its applications in astrophysics and cosmology. Having neither the time nor the inclination to delve deeply into the technical literature, such readers need a general introduction to the subject before exploring applica tions. It is for these readers that the present volume is intended. Keeping in mind the broad range of interests and wanting to avoid mathematical compli cations as much as possible, we have ventured to combine all three topics relativity, astrophysics, and cosmology-in a single volume. Naturally, we had to make a careful selection of topics to be discussed in order to keep the book to a manageable length.
Basic Concepts In Relativistic Astrophysics
Basic Concepts In Relativistic Astrophysics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Basic Concepts In Relativistic Astrophysics write by Lizhi Fang. This book was released on 1983-12-01. Basic Concepts In Relativistic Astrophysics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book, the interesting results of similar works carried out by both authors independently, is presented in a unique manner. This book is written as a token of exchange between the East and the West and it is hoped that it will lead to greater cooperation between the scientists.
Relativistic Astrophysics
Relativistic Astrophysics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Relativistic Astrophysics write by Marek Demiański. This book was released on 2013-10-22. Relativistic Astrophysics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Relativistic Astrophysics brings together important astronomical discoveries and the significant achievements, as well as the difficulties in the field of relativistic astrophysics. This book is divided into 10 chapters that tackle some aspects of the field, including the gravitational field, stellar equilibrium, black holes, and cosmology. The opening chapters introduce the theories to delineate gravitational field and the elements of relativistic thermodynamics and hydrodynamics. The succeeding chapters deal with the gravitational fields in matter; stellar equilibrium and general relativity stability; and the properties of pulsar, rotating and neutron stars. The discussion then shifts to the association between gravitational collapse and black holes, as well as the astrophysical investigations of neutron stars and black holes. The final chapters examine the principles of gravitational waves and advances in understanding the field of cosmology. This book will be of great value to astrophysicists and related scientists.
