By D. F. Lawden, Physics
ISBN-10: 0486425401
ISBN-13: 9780486425405
This straightforward advent will pay exact awareness to features of tensor calculus and relativity that scholars are inclined to locate such a lot tricky. Its use of particularly unsophisticated arithmetic within the early chapters permits readers to strengthen their self assurance in the framework of Cartesian coordinates sooner than venture the idea of tensors in curved areas and its software to common relativity thought. extra themes contain black holes, gravitational waves, and a valid history in utilising the rules of common relativity to cosmology. a number of workouts develop the theoretical advancements of the most textual content, hence bettering this volume's attract scholars of utilized arithmetic and physics at either undergraduate and postgraduate degrees. 1982 ed.
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