Description
Book SynopsisThis volume is to facilitate undergraduate and graduate students in theory of relativity and help them in their studies of High Energy Physics and Cosmology. The presentation has been kept simple and sufficient details have been provided in order to facilitate the understanding of the subject. The problems have also been selected to clarify the presentation and solutions of selected problems are given for better understanding of the contents.
Table of ContentsSpecial Theory of Relativity: Galilean Transformations; Special Theory of Relativity and Lorentz Transformations; Relativistic Mechanics; Lorentz Transformations (General Case); Four Velocity: Minkowski Force; Covariant Form of Electrodynamics; Spin; Space-Time Groups and Their Representations; General Theory of Relativity: Riemannian Geometry; Curved Space-time: Metric Tensor, Tensor Analysis, Tensor Densities, Affine Connection; Geodesic, Equivalence Principle, Gravitational Redshift; Curvature Tensor, Riemannian Tensor, Einstein's Field Equations; Solution of Einstein's Equations: The Schwarzschild Metric: The Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) Metric; Problems;
