Practical Relativity: From First Principles to the Theory of Gravity

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Practical Relativity: From First Principles to the Theory of Gravity

Richard N. Henriksen

Description

Practical Relativity is an advanced textbook that aims to emphasize the real applications of relativity and places the topic in the context of experimental science. The ‘practical’ aspect of the book rests primarily on the author’s method of starting at the beginning of the topic and proceeding to advanced material, while including all the stages that lead to important results. This book encompasses an approach that remains as close as possible to familiar concepts of vectors, tensors and reference systems in the hope of capitalizing on received wisdom.

Presented in six chapters, each chapter takes a logical step on the way to relativistic electromagnetism and gravity.

Chapter topics are:

Non-relativity for Relativists
Invariance of Physical Law Under Change of Inertial Frame of Reference
Implications: Using and Understanding the Lorentz Transformations
Electromagnetic Theory in Space-time
Gravitational Structure of Space-time
The Measure of Space-time

Problems and examples are included throughout the book and a solutions manual is available at www.wiley.com/go/henriksen.

This book may be used as lecture material for a course on special relativity and gravitation at an undergraduate and graduate level, and will appeal to students studying for both physics and astronomy. In addition, it will be a useful source book for physicists, astronomers and engineers.

About the Author

Professor Richard Henriksen is a full professor of astrophysics at Queen's University, Kingston (Canada). He was awarded his PhD at Manchester (UK) and he has been a senior visitor at Stanford (USA), a Humbolt Fellow in Germany and Engineur/chercheur at CEA Saclay in France. Professor Henriksen has published over 125 research papers of various kinds, many of which employ relativistic concepts. Together with Geoff Bicknell, he published in the astrophysical journal one of the first papers in which the formation of primordial black holes was calculated correctly. He has extensive experience lecturing, having lectured at all graduate and undergraduate levels in physics of most types. He has in addition presented many professional colloquia and has won the Queen’s University research excellence award. His areas of research range widely over the field of astronomy and astrophysics.

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