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This comprehensive textbook on relativity integrates Newtonian physics, special relativity and general relativity into a single book. It emphasizes the deep underlying principles common to them all, yet explains how they are applied in different ways in these three contexts.
List of contents
- Book 1 Space, time, and gravity in Newton's theory
- Part I Kinematics
- 1: Cartesian coordinates
- 2: Vector geometry
- 3: Curvilinear coordinates
- 4: Differential geometry
- Part II Dynamics
- 5: Equations of motion
- 6: Dynamics of massive systems
- 7: Conservation laws
- 8: Lagrangian mechanics
- 9: Hamiltonian mechanics
- 10: Kinetic theory
- Part III
- 11: The law of gravitation
- 12: The Kepler problem
- 13: The N-body problem
- 14: Deformations of celestial bodies
- 15: Self-gravitating fluids
- 16: Newtonian cosmology
- 17: Light in Newtonian theory
- Book 2 Special relativity and Maxwell's theory
- Part I Kinematics
- 1: Minkowski spacetime
- 2: The kinematics of a point particle
- 3: The kinematics of light
- 4: The wave vector of light
- 5: Accelerated frames
- Part II Dynamics
- 6: Dynamics of a point particle
- 7: Rotating systems
- 8: Fields and matter
- 9: The classical scalar field
- 10: The Nordström theory
- Part III Electromagnetism
- 11: The Lorentz force
- 12: The Maxwell equaions
- 13: Constant fields
- 14: The free field
- 15: Electromagnetic waves
- 16: Waves in a medium
- Part IV Electrodynamics
- 17: The field of moving charge
- 18: Radiation by a charge
- 19: The radiation reaction force
- 20: Interacting charges I
- 21: Interacting charges II
- 22: Electromagnetism and differential geometry
- Book 3 General relativity and gravitation
- Part I Curved spacetime and gravitation
- 1: The equivalence principle
- 2: Riemannian manifolds
- 3: Matter in curved spacetime
- 4: The Einstein equations
- 5: Conservation laws
- Part II The Schwarzschild solution and black holes
- 6: The Schwarzchild solution
- 7: The Schwarzchild black hole
- 8: The Kerr solution
- 9: The physics of black holes I
- 10: The physics of black holes II
- Part III General relativity and experiment
- 11: Tests in the solar system
- 12: The post-Newtonian approximation
- 13: Gravitational waves and the radiative field
- 14: Gravitational radiation
- 15: The two-body problem and radiative losses
- 16: The two-body problem: an effective-one-body approach: Written in collaboration with Félix-Louis Julié
- Part IV Friedmann-Lemaître solutions and cosmology
- 17: Cosmological spacetimes
- 18: Friedmann-Lemaître spacetimes
- 19: The Lambda-CDM model of the hot Big Bang
- 20: Inflationary models of the primordial universe
- 21: Cosmological perturbations
- 22: Primordial quantum perturbations
- Part V Elements of Riemannian geometry
- 23: The covariant derivative and the curvature
- 24: Riemannian manifolds
- 25: The Cartan structure equations
About the author
Nathalie Deruelle and Jean-Philippe Uzan are researchers in Theoretical Physics. After a career at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France, Nathalie Deruelle is now an invited professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB).
Jean-Philippe Uzan is a CNRS researcher at the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP) from Sorbonne Université. They are both affiliated professors at the Kyoto Yukawa Institute (YITP).
Summary
This comprehensive textbook on relativity integrates Newtonian physics, special relativity and general relativity into a single book. It emphasizes the deep underlying principles common to them all, yet explains how they are applied in different ways in these three contexts.
Additional text
It brings together, in a coherent way, classical Newtonian physics, special relativity and general relativity, emphasising common underlying principles.
