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Author:   Éric Gourgoulhon
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   2013 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 4.60cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.382kg
ISBN:  

9783642372759

ISBN 10:   3642372759
Pages:   784
Publication Date:   02 September 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

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.

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"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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