A College Course on Relativity and Cosmology - Softcover

Cheng, Ta-Pei (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, University Of Missouri - St. Louis)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199693412 ISBN 13: 9780199693412

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2015

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This advanced undergraduate text introduces Einstein's general theory of relativity covering topics such as geometric formulation of special relativity, the principle of equivalence, Einstein's field equation and its spherical-symmetric solution, as well as cosmology.

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Ta-Pei Cheng, Professor Emeritus, University of Missouri - St. Louis

Ta-Pei Cheng is a particle physics theorist. After graduating from Dartmouth College, he obtained his PhD at Rockefeller University with the noted physicist and Einstein biographer Abraham Pais. During 1973-2007 he was on the faculty at University of Missouri - St. Louis, where he now holds the rank of Professor Emeritus. Starting the early 1980's Oxford University Press has published a number of his books, the most recent one being "Einstein's Physics: Atoms, Quanta, and Relativity - Derived, Explained, and Appraised".

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• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0199693412
• ISBN 13: 9780199693412
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
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