Glendenning Special and General Relativity

With Applications to White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars and Black Holes
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-387-47109-9
Verlag: Springer US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 228 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Astronomy and Astrophysics Library

Special and General Relativity are concisely developed together with essential aspects of nuclear and particle physics. Problem sets are provided for many chapters, making the book ideal for a course on the physics of white dwarf and neutron star interiors.

Zielgruppe

Graduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Glendenning, Norman K.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Special Relativity.- General Relativity.- Compact Stars: From Dwarfs to Black Holes.- Cosmology.

Über Autor(innen)

Norman K. Glendenning is Senior Scientist Emeritus at the Nuclear Science Division, Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of numerous books, including Compact Stars (Springer, 2nd ed., 2000), Physics of Neutron Star Interiors (Springer, 2001) and Direct Nuclear Reactions (Academic Press, 1983).