This book is intended for students interested in the applications of general relativity in astrophysics and cosmology but who would like to avoid mathematical complications. This volume thus combines relativity, astrophysics, and cosmology in a single volume. It provides an introduction to the subject that will enable students to consult more detailed treatises as well as the current literature. For prospective researchers in these fields, the book includes an appendix on differential forms, and an extensive, though not exhaustive list of references. The book is divided into three parts. The section on general relativity gives the case for a curved space-time, presents the mathematical background (tensor calculus, Riemannian geometry), discusses the Einstein equation and its solutions (including black holes, Penrose processes, and similar topics), and considers the energy-momentum tensor for various solutions. The section on relativistic astrophysics discusses stellar contraction and collapse, neutron stars and their equations of state, black holes, and accretion onto collapsed objects. The section on cosmology discusses various cosmological models, observational tests, and scenarios for the early universe.
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This book is extraordinary; every general relativist and graduate student should have one. General relativity is a difficult subject, and like other difficult subjects (quantum field theory, topos theory, for example) you cannot expect to learn everything from one book.
This is an intermediate-level text that expects that you have had (at least) some exposure to Riemannian geometry and special relativity. If you are just beginning to learn general relativity I recommend that you begin with Schutz's A First Course in General Relativity, and if you do not know any Riemannian geometry, I recommend that you read Frank Morgan's Riemannian Geometry: A Beginners Guide, Second Edition. This book, however, is invaluable. It contains a serious but intuitive description of the relationship between general relativity and Newtonian gravity. Personally, I found this to be the best explanation I have ever seen. This book also contains a chapter on the Scharzschild metric is a godsend; everything is worked out in detail and explained beautifully. This book also contains brief but very insightful descriptions of black holes, black hole thermodynamics, and cosmology. This book will make reading MTW Gravitation (Physics Series), Wald General Relativity, Poisson A Relativist's Toolkit: The Mathematics of Black-Hole Mechanics, Weinberg Cosmology, and other GR texts much easier.
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For whom was this book written? If you don't know tensor analysis, GR and the rest of that stuff you're sure not going to learn it here. If you do know tensor analysis and the other stuff why are you reading this book?
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