A First Course in General Relativity
by Bernard Schutz · Bernard Schutz
Schutz builds the required tensor calculus and differential geometry from scratch, then applies them to Einstein's field equations, gravitational waves, stellar structure, black holes, and cosmology. Suited to physics undergraduates meeting relativity for the first time.
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