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Special Relativity in General Frames: From Particles to Astrophysics

Special Relativity in General Frames: From Particles to Astrophysics - Paperback

by Éric Gourgoulhon
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Availability:In StockContributor:Éric GourgoulhonSeries:Graduate Texts in PhysicsPublish date:2016-08-23Pages:784
Language:EnglishPublisher:SpringerISBN-13:9783662520833ISBN-10:3662520834UPC:9783662520833Book Category:Mathematics, ScienceBook Subcategory:Applied, PhysicsBook Topic:Astrophysics, GravitySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 1.62 inchesWeight:2.4714Product ID:SCQ5K9GCMX

Minkowski Spacetime.- Worldlines and Proper Time.- Observers.- Kinematics 1: Motion with Respect to an Observer.- Kinematics 2: Change of Observer.- Lorentz Group.- Lorentz Group as a Lie Group.- Inertial Observers and Poincaré Group.- Energy and Momentum.- Angular Momentum.- Principle of Least Action.- Accelerated Observers.- Rotating Observers.- Tensors and Alternate Forms.- Fields on Spacetime.- Integration in Spacetime.- Electromagnetic Field.- Maxwell Equations.- Energy-Momentum Tensor.- Energy-Momentum of the Electromagnetic Field.- Relativistic Hydrodynamics.- What about Relativistic Gravitation?.- A Basic Algebra.- B Web Pages.- C Special Relativity Books.

Language:EnglishPublisher:SpringerISBN-13:9783662520833ISBN-10:3662520834UPC:9783662520833Book Category:Mathematics, ScienceBook Subcategory:Applied, PhysicsBook Topic:Astrophysics, GravitySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 1.62 inchesWeight:2.4714Product ID:SCQ5K9GCMX

The astrophysicists Éric Gourgoulhon is CNRS Senior Scientist (directeur de recherche) at the Laboratoire Univers et Théorie LUTH of the Observatoire de Paris. He was awarded the CNRS silver medal 2012 for "the originality, quality and importance of his work, of both national and international repute". A specialist in special and general relativity, an experienced lecturer and author of two books on those subjects, Éric Gourgoulhon works on black holes, neutron stars, gravitational waves, Einstein's equations and numerical relativity.


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