Problem Book in Relativity and Gravitation

Lightman, Alan P.; Press, William H.; Price, Richard H.; Teukolsky, Saul A.

ISBN 10: 0691081603 / ISBN 13: 9780691081601

Editore: Princeton University Press, 1975

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With previous owner's name, otherwise a fine, as new, second printing paperback copy, white spine. Codice articolo 090697

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Titolo: Problem Book in Relativity and Gravitation

Casa editrice: Princeton University Press

Data di pubblicazione: 1975

Legatura: Trade Paperback

Condizione: Fine

Condizione sovraccoperta: wraps

Edizione: Second Printing, 1979

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Riassunto:

Important and useful to every student of relativity, this book is a unique collection of some 475 problems--with solutions--in the fields of special and general relativity, gravitation, relativistic astrophysics, and cosmology. The problems are expressed in broad physical terms to enhance their pertinence to readers with diverse backgrounds.

In their solutions, the authors have attempted to convey a mode of approach to these kinds of problems, revealing procedures that can reduce the labor of calculations while avoiding the pitfall of too much or too powerful formalism. Although well suited for individual use, the volume may also be used with one of the modem textbooks in general relativity.

Dalla quarta di copertina:

"This work is full of interesting problems, arranged by subject and graded by difficulty. It is full of intellectual content, and it is much more than modern pedagogy. It is modern physics, much of it at the frontiers, done in modern ways."--John A. Wheeler