Special Relativity in General Frames: From Particles to Astrophysics (Graduate Texts in Physics)
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| Rating | : | 4.56 (903 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 3642372759 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 784 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Such is the challenge (so successfully met!) of the beautiful book by Éric Gourgoulhon.” (excerpt from the Foreword by Thibault Damour). In the last, brief chapter the author gives a preview of gravity and shows where it becomes incompatible with Minkowsky spacetime. In the final chapters, more advanced topics like tensorial fields in spacetime, exterior calculus and relativistic hydrodynamics are addressed. Well illustrated and enriched by many historical notes, this book also presents many applications of special relativity, ranging from particle physics (accelerators, particle collisions, quark-gluon plasma) to astrophysics (relativistic jets,
Jack Shandy said A page-turner destined to become a classic.. I'm nowhere near done yet, but from the very first chapter the book grabbed my attention and has yet to let go of it. This is the perfect second or third text on special relativity. Breaking free of the usual emphasis on inertial observers, it centers on a mathematical treatment of Minkowski spacetime, connecting its structure to measurable quantities by arbitrarily moving observers along the way. This generalized framework serves the book very well: it's a piece of cake to include topics hardly ever expounded on or even mentioned at all in other books on SR like rotating observers an
This theory is presented here by adopting a four-dimensional point of view from the start. The book is suitable for students in the third year of a physics degree or on a masters course, as well as researchers and any reader interested in relativity. An outstanding feature of the book is that it doesn’t restrict itself to inertial frames but considers accelerated and rotating observers. From the Back CoverSpecial relativity is the basis of many fields in modern physics: particle physics, quantum field theory, high-energy astrophysics, etc. Such is the challenge (so successfully met
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,