A Student's Manual for A First Course in General Relativity
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Robert B. Scott (Author)
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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. Worked examples or Exercises; 5 Tables, black and white; 1 Halftones, unspecified; 11 Line drawings, unspecified
About the Author
Robert B. Scott is a Senior Lecturer with CNRS Chaire d'Excellence at the University of Western Brittany, France, where he specialises in introductory general relativity, special relativity and geophysical fluid dynamics and turbulence.
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- Contributor: Robert B. Scott
- Imprint: Cambridge University Press
- ISBN13: 9781107638570
- Number of Pages: 370
- Packaged Dimensions: 189x245x14mm
- Packaged Weight: 690
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Release Date: 2016-01-21
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Robert B. Scott is a Senior Lecturer with CNRS Chaire d'Excellence at the University of Western Brittany, France, where he specialises in introductory general relativity, special relativity and geophysical fluid dynamics and turbulence.
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