Relativist''s Toolkit - The Mathematics of Black-Hole Mechanics

Informationen zum Autor Eric Poisson is Professor of Physics at the University of Guelph. Klappentext Textbook providing practical tools for solving every day problems in general relativity! focusing on black holes. Zusammenfassung This 2004 textbook provides the advanced student with practical tools for the computation of many physically interesting quantities in general relativity and gravitational physics. The context is provided by the mathematical theory of black holes! one of the most elegant! successful and relevant applications of general relativity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Notation and conventions; 1. Fundamentals; 2. Geodesic congruences; 3. Hypersurfaces; 4. Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulation of general relativity; 5. Black holes; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Eric Poisson, Eric (University of Guelph Poisson, Poisson Eric
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.05.2004
• EAN: 9780521830911
• ISBN: 978-0-521-83091-1
• No. of pages: 250
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Theoretical physics; SCIENCE / Physics / Astrophysics, SCIENCE / Physics / Relativity, Theoretical & mathematical astronomy, Relativity physics, Theoretical and mathematical astronomy