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Practical Relativity From First Principles to the Theory of Gravity PDF

288 Pages·2010·1.939 MB·English
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by Richard N. Henriksen| 2010| 288 pages| 1.939| English

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Pressestimmen"What makes his textbook for a graduate or undergraduate course practical, says Henriksen (Queen's U., Kingston, Canada), is that it starts at the very beginning and goes nearly to the end; that in so far as he can balance between tedium and necessity, he covers each step along the way; and that he uses familiar concepts of vectors, tensors, and reference systems rather than fancy new ones that students might have to learn along the way." (Booknews, 1 February 2011) KurzbeschreibungThe book is intended to serve as lecture material for courses on relativity at undergraduate level. Although there has been much written on special relativity the present book will emphasize the real applications of relativity. In addition, it will be physically designed with the use of box summaries so as to allow easy access of practical results. The book will be composed of eight chapters. Chapter 1 will give an introduction to special relativity that is the world without gravity. Implications will be presented with emphasis on time dilation and the Doppler shift as practical considerations. In Chapter 2, the four-vector representation of events will be introduced. The bulk of this chapter will deal with flat space dynamics. This will require the generalization of Newton's first and second laws. Some important astronomical applications will be discussed in Chapter 3 and in Chapter 4 some engineering applications of special relativity such as atomic clocks will be presented. Chapter 5 will be dedicated to the thorny question of gravity. The physical motivation of the theory must be examined and the geometrical interpretation presented. Chapter 6 will present astronomical applications of relativistic gravity. These include the usual solar system tests; light bending, time delay, gravitational red-shift, precession of Keplerian orbits. Chapter 7 will be dedicated to relativistic cosmology. Many of the standard cosmological concepts will be introduced, being mathematically simple but conceptually subtle. The concluding chapter will be largely dedicated to the global positioning system as an engineering problem that requires both inertial and gravitational relativity. The large interferometers designed as gravitational wave telescopes will be discussed here.

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Author:Richard N. Henriksen
Publication Year:2010
ISBN:9780470741429
Pages:288
Language:English
File Size:1.939
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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