EAN: 9783319178905

UNDERGRADUATE LECTURE NOTES IN PHYSICS RELATI...

This book  now in a revised and updated second edition  explains the theory of special and
general relativity in detail without approaching Einstein's life or the historical background.
The text is formulated in such a way that the reader will be able to understand the essence
intuitively  and new sections have been added on time machines  the twin paradoxes  and
tensors. The first part of the book focuses on the essentials of special relativity. It
explains the famous equivalence between mass and energy and tells why Einstein was able to use
the theory of electrodynamics as a template for his electrodynamics of moving bodies. General
relativity is then addressed  mainly with the help of thought experiments. Reference is made to
the previously introduced special relativity and the equivalence principle and  using many
figures  it is explained how space-time is bending under gravity. The climax of the book is the
Einstein equation of gravity  which describes the way in which matter bends space-time. The
reader is shown how to obtain the famous Schwarzschild solution. Moreover  the book presents a
numerically correct and yet intuitive explanation of the classic effects such as light bending
and the advance of the perihelion. The book concludes by explaining the Friedmann model of the
big bang and why the theory of gravity does not fit with quantum theory.

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