Prof. Wolfgang Rindler, Dept of Physics, The University of Texas at Dallas, Email: wrindler@iopener.net, Phone: (972) 387 9768, Fax: (972) 883 2848

• Introduction: From absolute space and time to influenceable space time - an overview ; Part I: Special Relativity: Foundations of special relativity; the Lorentz transformation; relativistic kinematics; relativistic optics; spacetime and four-vectors; relativistic particle mechanics; four-tensors; electromagnetism in vacuum ; Part II: General Relativity: Curved spaces and the basic ideas of general relativity; static and stationary spacetimes; geodesics, curvature tensor and vacuum field equations; the Schwarzschild metric; black holes and Kruskal space; an exact graviational wave; the full field equations; de Sitter space; linearized general relativity ; Part III: Cosmology: Cosmological spacetimes; light propagation in FRW universes; dynamics of FRW universes ; Appendix: Curvature tensor components

An outstanding introductory treatise by one of the masters of the subject, this book belongs to the shelves of every physics library.

Prof. Wolfgang Rindler, Dept of Physics, The University of Texas at Dallas, Email: wrindler@iopener.net, Phone: (972) 387 9768, Fax: (972) 883 2848

• Introduction: From absolute space and time to influenceable space time - an overview ; Part I: Special Relativity: Foundations of special relativity; the Lorentz transformation; relativistic kinematics; relativistic optics; spacetime and four-vectors; relativistic particle mechanics; four-tensors; electromagnetism in vacuum ; Part II: General Relativity: Curved spaces and the basic ideas of general relativity; static and stationary spacetimes; geodesics, curvature tensor and vacuum field equations; the Schwarzschild metric; black holes and Kruskal space; an exact graviational wave; the full field equations; de Sitter space; linearized general relativity ; Part III: Cosmology: Cosmological spacetimes; light propagation in FRW universes; dynamics of FRW universes ; Appendix: Curvature tensor components

An outstanding introductory treatise by one of the masters of the subject, this book belongs to the shelves of every physics library.

Prof. Wolfgang Rindler, Dept of Physics, The University of Texas at Dallas, Email: wrindler@iopener.net, Phone: (972) 387 9768, Fax: (972) 883 2848

• Introduction: From absolute space and time to influenceable space time - an overview ; Part I: Special Relativity: Foundations of special relativity; the Lorentz transformation; relativistic kinematics; relativistic optics; spacetime and four-vectors; relativistic particle mechanics; four-tensors; electromagnetism in vacuum ; Part II: General Relativity: Curved spaces and the basic ideas of general relativity; static and stationary spacetimes; geodesics, curvature tensor and vacuum field equations; the Schwarzschild metric; black holes and Kruskal space; an exact graviational wave; the full field equations; de Sitter space; linearized general relativity ; Part III: Cosmology: Cosmological spacetimes; light propagation in FRW universes; dynamics of FRW universes ; Appendix: Curvature tensor components

An outstanding introductory treatise by one of the masters of the subject, this book belongs to the shelves of every physics library.