Relativity and Cosmology
Kip S. Thorne, Roger D. Blandford
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A groundbreaking textbook on twenty-first-century general relativity and cosmology
Kip Thorne and Roger Blandford’s monumental Modern Classical Physics is now available in five stand-alone volumes that make ideal textbooks for individual graduate or advanced undergraduate courses on statistical physics; optics; elasticity and fluid dynamics; plasma physics; and relativity and cosmology. Each volume teaches the fundamental concepts, emphasizes modern, real-world applications, and gives students a physical and intuitive understanding of the subject.
Relativity and Cosmology is an essential introduction to the subject, including remarkable recent advances. Written by award-winning physicists who have made fundamental contributions to the field and taught it for decades, the book differs from most others on the subject in important ways. It highlights recent transformations in our understanding of black holes, gravitational waves, and the cosmos; it emphasizes the physical interpretation of general relativity in terms of measurements made by observers; it explains the physics of the Riemann tensor in terms of tidal forces, differential frame dragging, and associated field lines; it presents an astrophysically oriented description of spinning black holes; it gives a detailed analysis of an incoming gravitational wave’s interaction with a detector such as LIGO; and it provides a comprehensive, in-depth account of the universe’s evolution, from its earliest moments to the present. While the book is designed to be used for a one-quarter or full-semester course, it goes deep enough to provide a foundation for understanding and participating in some areas of cutting-edge research.
- Includes many exercise problems
- Features color figures, suggestions for further reading, extensive cross-references, and a detailed index
- Optional “Track 2” sections make this an ideal book for a one-quarter or one-semester course
- An online illustration package is available to professors
The five volumes, which are available individually as paperbacks and ebooks, are Statistical Physics; Optics; Elasticity and Fluid Dynamics; Plasma Physics; and Relativity and Cosmology.
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Schwarzschild coordinates, Simultaneity, Eddington–Finkelstein coordinates, Gravitational redshift, Geodesics in general relativity, LIGO, Equivalence principle, Newton's law of universal gravitation, Physical law, Neutron star, Time travel, Tests of general relativity, Coordinate system, Stress–energy tensor, Minkowski space, Gravitational lens, Wormhole, Energy density, Lorentz transformation, Tidal force, Cosmic microwave background, Angular momentum, Gravity, Rindler coordinates, Quantity, Orbit, Hubble's law, Tangent space, Light cone, Amplitude, Kerr metric, Physicist, World line, Measurement, Baryon, De Sitter universe, Quantum mechanics, Binary pulsar, Cosmological constant, Gravitational acceleration, Classical physics, Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker metric, Graviton, Hypersurface, Schwarzschild radius, General relativity, Einstein field equations, Frame-dragging, Special relativity, Gravitational wave, Neutrino, Black hole, Interferometry, Penrose process, Acceleration, Calculation, Photon, Imaginary time, Lorentz covariance, Mass–energy equivalence, Correspondence principle, Newtonian potential, Conservation law, Post-Newtonian expansion, Schwarzschild metric, Baryon acoustic oscillations, Deceleration parameter, Lambda-CDM model, Metric tensor (general relativity), Temperature