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Title: Introduction To General Relativity Author: Bin Chen Publisher: World Scientific ISBN: 9789819827299 Cover: HARDCOVER Date: 2026年04月 こちらの商品は学校・法人様向け(機関契約)のオンラインブック版がございます。 オンラインブックの価格、納期につきましては弊社営業員または当ECサイトよりお問い合わせください。 ![]() DESCRIPTION This book is unique in that, while employing the language of differential geometry, it systematically introduces all the essential concepts of both gravitational physics and differential geometry itself. In sprit, it is similar to celebrated texts such as Gravitation by Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler and Carroll's Spacetime and Geometry, in that it prioritizes physical intuition over rigorous formalism. Readers will find a comprehensive treatment of relativity, spanning from special to general relativity, with coverage of: Special relativity in differential geometric language - including uniformly accelerated motion, dynamics of massive and massless particles in flat spacetime, tensor analysis, and perfect fluids. Newtonian gravity and its incompatibility with special relativity, equivalence principles, gravitational redshift, relativistic effects in GPS, and the need for curved spacetime. Fundamentals of Riemannian geometry: manifolds, tensor fields, metric fields, Riemann normal coordinates, Levi-Civita tensors, exterior calculus, connections, geodesics, curvature, and Killing symmetries. Geodesic deviation, tidal forces, Einstein's field equations, weak-field approximation, and action principles. Schwarzschild spacetime, classical tests of general relativity, Schwarzschild black holes and their maximal extension, and gravitational collapse. Kerr spacetime, the Penrose process, black hole thermodynamics, and Hawking radiation. Basics of gravitational waves: origins, detection, and energy loss. The book also integrates modern developments, such as late-20th-century experimental tests, the effective field theory approach to general relativity, and modified theories of gravity. Suitable both as a textbook and a self-study reference, this work provides an accessible yet thorough journey into the geometric nature of gravity. TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1: Special Relativity Chapter 2: Tensor Calculus in Special Relativity Chapter 3: Gravity and Geometry Chapter 4: Foundations of Curved Spacetime - Manifolds Chapter 5: Connections and Geodesics Chapter 6: Curvature Chapter 7: Einstein’s Equations Chapter 8: Spherically Symmetric Vacuum Solution Chapter 9: Schwarzschild Black Hole Chapter 10: Kerr Black Hole
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