Theory of relativity / Fayyazuddin, National Centre for Physics, Pakistan, Riazuddin, National Centre for Physics, Pakistan, Muhammad Jamil Aslam, Quaid-i-Azam University, Pakistan.
By: Fayyazuddin [author.].
Contributor(s): Riazuddin [author.] | Aslam, Jamil [author.].
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TextPublisher: [Hackensack,] New Jersey : World Scientific, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: xii, 213 pages : USD 58.00 illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9789814641890 (hardcover : alk. paper); 9814641898 (hardcover : alk. paper).Subject(s): Relativity (Physics)DDC classification: 530.11 | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| Book | Chennai Mathematical Institute General Stacks | 530.11 FAY (Browse shelf) | Available | 10497 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 213) and index.
Galilean transformations -- Special theory of relativity and lorentz transformations -- Relativistic mechanics -- Lorentz transformations (general case) -- Four velocity: Minkowski force -- Covariant form of electrodynamics -- Spin -- Space time groups and their representations -- Metric tensor, tensor analysis, tensor densities, affine connection -- Geodesic, equivalence principle, gravitational red shift -- Curvature tensor, Riemannian tensor, Einstein's field equations -- Solution of Einstein's equations: the Schwarzschild metric: the Friedmann Robertson and Walker (FRW) metric.