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41. General Relativity and Matter: A Spinor Field Theory from Fermis to Light-Years (Fundamental Theories of Physics) by M. Sachs | |
Paperback: 232
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(2010-11-02)
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Nobel prize winning material. Gravity and Electromagnetism are now naturally married in a brilliant re-derivation of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. Sachs uncovers a long forgotten paper by Einstein and Mayer that holds the secret. But Einstein missed its fundamental importance. The vector basis used by Einstein in deriving the General Theory is incomplete. Just as Maxwell (and Tait) used the more complete basis of quaternions in deriving Maxwell's equations, Sachs builds a complete theory of General Relativity but using a quaternionic basis. Hamilton and his quaternions are finally vindicated. The "square root problem" of the fundamental metric defining space-time disappears with the natural factorization of the metric stated in a quaternionic basis. The true nature of spin that has eluded all the vendors of Quantum Mechanics comes simply from the correct application of relativistic covariance. It does NOT depend on the quantum mechanical nature of the description per se. The additional key insight is that Sachs realises that Einstein needed to eliminate the discrete symmetries of reflections in space and time. Sachs points out that the theory of relativity compares laws of nature in reference frames that are distinguished from each other ONLY in terms of their relative motion - a continuous set of transformations. I suspect there will be many years before the true nature of this staggering leap of Sachs is recognized. Meanwhile Physics wanders in the wilderness of the string theory and other well meaning but misguided theories that come from academics wandering too far from the shirt-tails of geniuses like Einstein and Newton. ... Read more |
42. Relativity: The General and Special Theory by Albert Einstein (Halcyon Classics) by Albert Einstein | |
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(2010-09-06)
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43. Introducing Einstein's Relativity by R. d'Inverno | |
Paperback: 400
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(1992-06-18)
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Excellent General Relativity Textbook
Review by author of Relativity Demystified
This is the best book for an introduction to GR
Where's the new edition?
The best intro book on GR !!! |
44. An Introduction to Relativity by Jayant V. Narlikar | |
Paperback: 372
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(2010-02-26)
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45. General Relativity and John Archibald Wheeler (Astrophysics and Space Science Library) | |
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(2010-06-30)
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Editorial Review Product Description Observational and experimental data pertaining to gravity and cosmology are changing our view of the Universe. General relativity is a fundamental key for the understanding of these observations and its theory is undergoing a continuing enhancement of its intersection with observational and experimental data. These data include direct observations and experiments carried out in our solar system, among which there are direct gravitational wave astronomy, frame dragging and tests of gravitational theories from solar system and spacecraft observations. This book explores John Archibald Wheeler's seminal and enduring contributions in relativistic astrophysics and includes: the General Theory of Relativity and Wheeler's influence; recent developments in the confrontation of relativity with experiments; the theory describing gravitational radiation, and its detection in Earth-based and space-based interferometer detectors as well as in Earth-based bar detectors; the mathematical description of the initial value problem in relativity and applications to modeling gravitational wave sources via computational relativity; the phenomenon of frame dragging and its measurement by satellite observations. All of these areas were of direct interest to Professor John A. Wheeler and were seminally influenced by his ideas. Customer Reviews (1)
Nothing substantially new |
46. General relativity; papers in honour of J. L. Synge | |
Hardcover: 277
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(1972)
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47. Was Einstein Right? 2nd Edition: Putting General Relativity To The Test by Clifford M. Will | |
Paperback: 304
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(1993-06-02)
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out of date
Excellent
a saga of modern science |
48. Relativity: An Introduction to Special and General Relativity by Hans Stephani | |
Paperback: 420
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(2004-03-29)
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Good general purpose book on GTR |
49. Relativity: An Introduction to Spacetime Physics by Steve Adams | |
Paperback: 280
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(1997-09-29)
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An excellent introduction to Relativity |
50. Einstein's General Theory of Relativity: With Modern Applications in Cosmology by Øyvind Grøn, Sigbjorn Hervik | |
Paperback: 540
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(2010-11-02)
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Editorial Review Product Description This book introduces the general theory of relativity and includes applications to cosmology. The book provides a thorough introduction to tensor calculus and curved manifolds. After the necessary mathematical tools are introduced, the authors offer a thorough presentation of the theory of relativity. Also included are some advanced topics not previously covered by textbooks, including Kaluza-Klein theory, Israel's formalism and branes. Anisotropic cosmological models are also included. The book contains a large number of new exercises and examples, each with separate headings. The reader will benefit from an updated introduction to general relativity including the most recent developments in cosmology. Customer Reviews (3)
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Up to you
A Physics Professor |
51. Essential Relativity: Special, General, and Cosmological (Theoretical and Mathematical Physics) by W. Rindler | |
Hardcover: 308
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(1977-05-05)
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Very well written The first chapter of the book is the best, for it is a comprehensive discussion of the origins of the theory of relativity as one that rejected the assertion that space and time were absolute. The author also gives an interesting historical discussion of Lorentz's ether theory, wherein Lorentz hypothesized that bodies moving through the ether undergo a contraction, and he discovered a time transformation that implied that clocks moving through the ether run slow. As the author points out, Lorentz thought such considerations were purely mathematical, and not important physically. In addition, in the section on Mach's principle, the author discusses briefly the work of Dennis Sciama who showed that the 1872 gravitational theory of F. Tisserand included Mach's principle. I was not aware of this work, and it motivated me to do further reading on the subject. The author also gives several examples to show that Mach's principle is not physically vacuous, but has observational consequences. Chapter two overviews the kinematic consequences of the special theory of relativity. The most interesting part of this discussion was the section on the formulation of special relativity without assuming the invariance of the speed of light. The author shows that the principle of relativity implies that either all inertial frames are related by Galilean transformations, or all are related by Lorentz transformations with the same (postive) velocity (squared). A discussion of optical effects follows in chapter 3. One unexpected and interesting result in this chapter is that a moving sphere has a circular outline to all observers because of length contraction. Some of the mathematical formalism needed in special relativity is overviewed in chapter four. The class of four-vectors and four-tensors is defined, and the light cone geometry discussed in detail. The relativistic mechanics of point particles is covered in chapter five. Such a theory is cast in the language of four-vectors, and the author explains nicely the mass-energy equivalence, analyzes scattering from a relativistic standpoint in the center of momentum frame, and shows how Newtonian mechanics is altered in the relativistic realm. He also spends a little time on relativistic continuum mechanics, via the energy tensor of the simplest continua: dust. The connection between relativity and electrodynamics is outlined in chapter six. The material is standard and found in most books on relativity. The author begins the study of general relativity in chapter seven with some elementary considerations of the differential geometry of curved surfaces and also Riemannian spaces. The author endeavors, rightfully, to explain the mathematics in a way that is intuitive as possible, rather than hitting the reader with highly abstract formalism. He then presents the mathematica foundations of general relativity in chapter eight. After a brief review of tensor calculus, the author considers the gravitational field equations in a vacuum, emphasizing their nonlinearity. This is followed by a detailed discussion of the famous Schwarzschild solution. In addition, he considers a particular exact solution of the Einstein field equations in a vacuum, namely a plane-fronted gravitational wave. Although not physical, this solution illustrates some important properties of general gravitational radiation. The author ends the book with a fairly detailed overview of cosmology. The difficulties in the pre-relativistic cosmology are discussed, one of the more interesting being the consideration of the Newtonian gravitational field inside a cavity resulting from the removal of a finite sphere from a static universe. Recognizing that Poisson's equation does not have a constant solution led to the alteration of the Newtonian potential and thus a modification of the Poisson equation. As the author observes, this move to get a static Newtonian universe is formally the same as what Einstein did via the introduction of the cosmological constant in his field equations (also to get a static universe). The author also considers the Robertson-Walker, Milne, and Friedman universe, and compares these to what is known observationally.
Relativity in the style of Feynman's Lectures
subtle approach to SR and GR |
52. Introduction to 3+1 Numerical Relativity (International Series of Monographs on Physics) by Miguel Alcubierre | |
Hardcover: 448
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(2008-06-16)
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nice! |
53. General Relativity: A Geometric Approach by Malcolm Ludvigsen | |
Paperback: 230
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(1999-06-01)
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First GR book without the Christoffel symbols?
Dense
A good book (in particular, for students)
not so geometric
Useful, but with a STEEP learning curve Ludvigsen's book has the virtues of brevity as well as its difficulties, however: the reader can see where he is going at all times, and the author takes the reader through the modern approach to differential geometry, and deeply into the results of relativity theory, quickly and efficiently. I hope to see a second edition of this book. A little more explanantion, here and there, would do much, if not to reduce the steepness of the learning curve, at least to provide a few handholds on the way up! ... Read more |
54. The Formation of Black Holes in General Relativity (EMS Monographs in Mathematics) by Demetrios Christodoulou | |
Hardcover: 600
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(2009-01-01)
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55. Introduction to 2-Spinors in General Relativity by Peter O'Donnell | |
Hardcover: 204
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(2003-04)
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56. An Introduction to General Relativity (London Mathematical Society Student Texts) by L. P. Hughston, K. P. Tod | |
Paperback: 192
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(1991-01-25)
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57. The Third Piece: Unifying General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics and Personal Identity by Anderthal Kord | |
Paperback: 118
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(2010-07-15)
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58. Special Relativity (Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series) (Volume 0) by N.M.J. Woodhouse | |
Paperback: 192
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(2003-05-07)
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A little mathematics goes a long way |
59. The Evolution Problem in General Relativity by Sergiu Klainerman, Francesco Nicolo | |
Hardcover: 400
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(2002-12-13)
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60. Special and General Relativity: With Applications to White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars and Black Holes (Astronomy and Astrophysics Library) by Norman K. Glendenning | |
Paperback: 228
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(2010-11-02)
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Editorial Review Product Description 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. 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. |
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