Spacetime and Geometry An Introduction to General Relativity

by Carroll, Sean

• ISBN13: 9780805387322
• ISBN10: 0805387323
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-09-18
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativityprovides a lucid and thoroughly modern introduction to general relativity. With an accessible and lively writing style, it introduces modern techniques to what can often be a formal and intimidating subject.Readers are led from the physics of flat spacetime (special relativity), through the intricacies of differential geometry and Einstein's equations, and on to exciting applications such as black holes, gravitational radiation, and cosmology.For advanced undergraduates and graduate students, or anyone interested in astronomy, cosmology, physics, or general relativity.

Author Biography

Sean Carroll is an assistant professor in the Physics Department, Enrico Fermi Institute, and Center for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago. His research ranges over a number of topics in theoretical physics, focusing on cosmology, field theory, and gravitation. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1993, and spent time as a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Theoretical Physics at MIT and the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has been awarded fellowships from the Sloan and Packard foundations, as well as the MIT Graduate Student Council Teaching Award. For more information, see his Web site at http://pancake.uchicago.edu/~carroll

Table of Contents

1. Special Relativity and Flat Spacetime.
2. Manifolds.
3. Curvature.
4. Gravitation.
5. The Schwarzchild Solution.
6. More General Black Holes.
7. Cosmology.
8. Perturbation Theory and Gravitational Radiation.
9. Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime.
10. Appendicies.