A Student's Manual for a First Course in General Relativity

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.

Author: Robert B. Scott
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 01/21/2016
Pages: 370
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.54lbs
Size: 9.73h x 7.46w x 0.59d
ISBN13: 9781107638570
ISBN10: 1107638577
BISAC Categories:
- Study Aids | Study Guides
- Science | Physics | Relativity
- Science | Physics | Astrophysics