Relativity and Cosmology - Hardcover

H. P. Robertson; Thomas W. Noonan

 
9780721676159: Relativity and Cosmology

Synopsis

H.P. Robertson and Thomas W. Noonan [former College at Brockport facultymember). Based on Robertson's notes for his relativity course at Caltech from 1949-1961. Euclidean space -- Classical electromagnetism -- The Lorentz transformation -- Electromagnetism in special relativity -- Matter -- Special relativistic gravitation theories -- Differential geoemtry -- Riemannian geometry -- General relativity -- Seclected topics in general relativity -- Inertial frames -- Equations of motion -- Automorphisms -- Foundations of cosmology -- Observable quantities -- Speical cosmological models -- General-relativistic cosmology -- Cosmological observations.

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