quantum

MIT Course Number: 8.962
Author: Carroll, Sean M.
Isbn 13: 9780805387322
ISBN: 0805387323
Pub Date: Sep 1, 2003
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Shipping Weight: 2.70 pounds
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This book provides a lucid and thoroughly modern introduction to general relativity for advanced readers. With an accessible and lively writing style, it introduces modern techniques to what can often be a formal and intimidating subject. Readers are led from the physics of flat spacetime, through the intricacies of differential geometry and Einsteins equations, and on to exciting applications such as black holes, gravitational radiation, and cosmology. Subtle points are illuminated throughout the text by careful exposition. A straightforward and lucid approach, balancing mathematical rigor and physical insight, are hallmarks of this important new text.
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