Relativity, Gravitation And Cosmology (Record no. 74242)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780199573646 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 530.11 |
| Cutter | Che |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Cheng, Ta-Pei |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Relativity, Gravitation And Cosmology |
| Remainder of title | : A Basic Introduction |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 2nd ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Oxford |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Oxford University Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2010 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xiii;435 |
| Other physical details | 9.5x7 |
| Dimensions | pb |
| 440 ## - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE | |
| Title | Oxford Master Series In Practice Physics, Astrophysics And Cosmology |
| 520 ## - Remark | |
| Summary, etc | Einstein's general theory of relativity is introduced in this advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate level textbook. Topics include special relativity, in the formalism of Minkowski's four-dimensional space-time, the principle of equivalence, Riemannian geometry and tensor analysis, Einstein field equation, as well as many modern cosmological subjects, from primordial inflation and cosmic microwave anisotropy to the dark energy that propels an accelerating universe. The author presents the subject with an emphasis on physical examples and simple applications without the full tensor apparatus. The reader first learns how to describe curved spacetime. At this mathematically more accessible level, the reader can already study the many interesting phenomena such as gravitational lensing, precession of Mercury's perihelion, black holes, and cosmology. The full tensor formulation is presented later, when the Einstein equation is solved for a few symmetric cases. Many modern topics in cosmology are discussed in this book: from inflation, cosmic microwave anisotropy to the "dark energy" that propels an accelerating universe. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE | |
| Language note | ENG |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | General relativity (Physics)-Textbooks |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Space and time |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Gravity |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Cosmology |
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| Item type | Book |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Permanent location | Current location | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Koha item type |
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| Book | HBCSE | HBCSE | Physics | 2014-05-20 | 530.11/Che | 18075 | 2014-05-20 | Book |