Relativity and Cosmology
From First Principles to Interpretations
- 1st Edition - January 22, 2024
- Latest edition
- Author: Balša Terzić
- Language: English
Relativity and Cosmology: From First Principles to Interpretations provides a high-quality and highly relevant astrophysics grounding for senior undergraduate students. This comp… Read more
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Description
Description
Relativity and Cosmology: From First Principles to Interpretations provides a high-quality and highly relevant astrophysics grounding for senior undergraduate students. This comprehensive textbook emphasizes an illustrative, pedagogical approach and aims to strike a balance between the breadth and depth of the material presented, frequently tying new material – relativistic mechanics and gravity – to the classical mechanics and gravity with which readers are more familiar. It includes robust content and corresponding exercises, figures, and appendices on many exciting developments, including relativistic mechanics; Newtonian classical mechanics; relativistic spacetime; special relativity; general relativity; tensor calculus; cosmology; Einstein’s field equations; dark matter; dark energy; and black holes.
This accessible edition delivers helpful and engaging additions to the role and importance of physics in cosmology and relativity. It is ideal for courses in physics, astrophysics, astronomy, and related subjects.
Key features
Key features
- Introduces practical, mathematical approaches for applying fundamental concepts in relativity and cosmology
- Places an emphasis on illustrative pedagogical approaches with applied examples
- Strikes a balance between the breadth and depth of the material presented, frequently tying the new material – including relativistic mechanics and gravity – to the classical mechanics and gravity with which readers may be more familiar
- Includes numerous figures, examples, illustrative problems, and appendices which provide convenient access to the important physics concepts used in the text
- Offers online support, including a full solutions manual for qualified instructors and additional programming resources (PowerPoints and Python files)
Readership
Readership
Senior undergraduate students majoring in physics, Professionals / researchers / academics applying relativity and cosmology principles in research and applied settings, who require an introduction or refresher to the subject, or study an adjacent field, like mathematics or engineering
Table of contents
Table of contents
2. Special Relativity
3. The Equivalence Principle
4. General Relativity
5. Einstein’s Field Equations
6. The Schwarzschild Metric and Black Holes
7. Cosmological Metric and Friedmann’s Equations
8. Solutions of Friedmann’s Equations
9. Cosmological Constant and the Dark Universe
10. Cosmic Distances
11. Summary of the Foundations of Cosmology
12. Cosmic Inventory
13. Brief History of the Early Universe
14. Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
Appendices
A: An Alternative Lagrangian
B: Geodesic Equation in Spherical Coordinates
C: Example of Metric Conversion
D: Applying the Geodesic Equation
E: Matter–Dark Energy Equality
F: Radiation–Dark Energy Equality
G: Radiation-Matter Equality
H: Chemical Potential
I: How to Compute the Relative Abundances of the Light Elements
I: Equation of State for the Perfect Fluid
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: March 11, 2024
- Language: English
About the author
About the author
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