RELATIVISTIC ASTROPHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY: A Primer

Hoyng, Peter

ISBN 10: 1402045212 / ISBN 13: 9781402045219

Editore: Springer, Berlin, 2006

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".offers a succinct and self-contained treatment of general relativity and its application to neutron stars, black holes, gravitational waves and cosmology, at an intermediate level." Octavo: 291 p. with 114 figures, including 16 in color, and 12 tables. Original printed boards; issued without a dust jacket. Just a hint of edgewear; else a fine copy.

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• Titolo: RELATIVISTIC ASTROPHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY: A Primer
• Editore: Springer, Berlin
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1402045212
• ISBN 13: 9781402045219
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Fine
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: sovraccoperta
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Physics

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Riassunto

Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology offers a succinct and self-contained treatment of general relativity and its application to compact objects, gravitational waves and cosmology. The required mathematical concepts are introduced informally, following geometrical intuition as much as possible. The approach is theoretical, but there is ample discussion of observational aspects and of instrumental issues where appropriate.

The book includes such topical issues as the Gravity Probe B mission, interferometer detectors of gravitational waves, and the physics behind the angular power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Written for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students in (astro)physics, it is ideally suited for a lecture course and contains 140 exercises with extensive hints. The reader is assumed to be familiar with linear algebra and analysis, ordinary differential equations, special relativity, and basic thermal physics.

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This book offers a succinct and self-contained treatment of general relativity and its application to neutron stars, black holes, gravitational waves and cosmology, at an intermediate level. The required mathematical concepts are introduced informally, following geometrical intuition as much as possible. The approach is theoretical, but there is ample discussion of observational aspects and instrumental issues where appropriate.

Topical issues such as the Gravity Probe B mission, and the physics of interferometer detectors of gravitational waves and the angular power spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background are included. The book is written for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students in (astro)physics. The reader is assumed to be familiar with linear algebra and analysis, ordinary differential equations, special relativity, and basic thermal physics, but prior knowledge of differential geometry and general relativity is not required. Containing 140 exercises with extensive hints for their solution this book is ideally suited for a lecture course.

The author is a senior scientist at the SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research and teaches regularly at the University of Utrecht.