Gravitation and Cosmology Principles and Applications of the General Theory of Relativity

A leading physicist delves into relativity and experimental applications

Gravitation and Cosmology: Principles and Applications of the General Theory of Relativity offers a Nobel laureate's perspectives on the wealth of data technological developments have brought to expand upon Einstein's theory. Unique in basing relativity on the Principle of Equivalence of Gravitation and Inertia over Riemannian geometry, this book explores relativity experiments and observational cosmology to provide a sound foundation upon which analyses can be made. Covering special and general relativity, tensor analysis, gravitation, curvature, and more, this book provides an engaging, insightful introduction to the forces that shape the universe.

Preface

Notation

Copy Right Acknowledgements

Part 1    Part One Preliminaries

Part 2    Part Two The General Theory of Relativity

Part 3    Part Three Applications of General Relativity

Part 4    Part Four Formal Developments

Part 5    Part Five Cosmology

Appendix Some Useful Numbers 635

Index 641

Steven Weinberg ForMemRS is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his contributions with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow to the unification of the weak force and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles.