Clarity readability and rigor combine in the third edition of this widely used textbook to
provide the first step into general relativity for advanced undergraduates with a minimal
background in mathematics. Topics within relativity that fascinate astrophysics researchers and
students alike are covered with Schutz's characteristic ease and authority from black holes to
relativistic objects from pulsars to the study of the Universe as a whole. This third edition
contains discoveries by astronomers that require general relativity for their explanation two
chapters on gravitational waves including direct detections of gravitational waves and their
observations' impact on cosmological measurements new information on black holes and neutron
stars and greater insight into the expansion of the Universe. Over 300 exercises many new to
this edition give students the confidence to work with general relativity and the necessary
mathematics while the informal writing style and worked examples make the subject matter
easily accessible.
