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A Student's Manual for A First Course in General Relativity
Contributor(s): Scott, Robert B. (Author)

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 ISBN: 1107638577     ISBN-13: 9781107638570
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE: $29.44  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Study Aids | Study Guides
- Science | Physics - Relativity
- Science | Physics - Astrophysics
Dewey: 530.11
LCCN: 2015020004
Physical Information: 0.59" H x 7.46" W x 9.73" L (1.54 lbs) 370 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product
 
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This comprehensive student manual has been designed to accompany the leading textbook by Bernard Schutz, A First Course in General Relativity, and uses detailed solutions, cross-referenced to several introductory and more advanced textbooks, to enable self-learners, undergraduates and postgraduates to master general relativity through problem solving. The perfect accompaniment to Schutz's textbook, this manual guides the reader step-by-step through over 200 exercises, with clear easy-to-follow derivations. It provides detailed solutions to almost half of Schutz's exercises, and includes 125 brand new supplementary problems that address the subtle points of each chapter. It includes a comprehensive index and collects useful mathematical results, such as transformation matrices and Christoffel symbols for commonly studied spacetimes, in an appendix. Supported by an online table categorising exercises, a Maple worksheet and an instructors' manual, this text provides an invaluable resource for all students and instructors using Schutz's textbook.

Contributor Bio(s): Scott, Robert B.: - Robert B. Scott is a Senior Lecturer with CNRS Chaire d'Excellence at the University of Western Brittany, France, where he specialises in introductory general relativity, special relativity and geophysical fluid dynamics and turbulence.
 
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