Ebook: General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-3
Differentiable Manifolds....Pages 4-8
Tangent Vectors, Vector and Tensor Fields....Pages 9-20
The Lie Derivative....Pages 21-26
Differential Forms....Pages 27-46
Affine Connections....Pages 47-74
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Introduction....Pages 77-80
The Principle of Equivalence....Pages 81-122
Einstein’s Field Equations....Pages 123-165
The Schwarzschild Solution and Classical Tests of General Relativity....Pages 166-213
Weak Gravitational Fields....Pages 214-241
The Post-Newtonian Approximation....Pages 242-276
Front Matter....Pages 277-279
Neutron Stars....Pages 280-360
Rotating Black Holes....Pages 361-372
Binary X-Ray Sources....Pages 373-387
Accretion onto Black Holes and Neutron Stars....Pages 388-440
Back Matter....Pages 441-459

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-3
Differentiable Manifolds....Pages 4-8
Tangent Vectors, Vector and Tensor Fields....Pages 9-20
The Lie Derivative....Pages 21-26
Differential Forms....Pages 27-46
Affine Connections....Pages 47-74
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Introduction....Pages 77-80
The Principle of Equivalence....Pages 81-122
Einstein’s Field Equations....Pages 123-165
The Schwarzschild Solution and Classical Tests of General Relativity....Pages 166-213
Weak Gravitational Fields....Pages 214-241
The Post-Newtonian Approximation....Pages 242-276
Front Matter....Pages 277-279
Neutron Stars....Pages 280-360
Rotating Black Holes....Pages 361-372
Binary X-Ray Sources....Pages 373-387
Accretion onto Black Holes and Neutron Stars....Pages 388-440
Back Matter....Pages 441-459
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