Special and General Relativity

With Applications to White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars and Black Holes

Norman K. Glendenning (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

228 Seiten

2010 | Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2007
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4419-2366-0 (ISBN)

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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, including Compact Stars (Springer, 2nd ed., 2000), Physics of Neutron Star Interiors (Springer, 2001) and Direct Nuclear Reactions (Academic Press, 1983).

Special Relativity.- General Relativity.- Compact Stars: From Dwarfs to Black Holes.- Cosmology.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.12.2010
Reihe/Serie	Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
Zusatzinfo	50 Illustrations, black and white; XII, 228 p. 50 illus.
Verlagsort	New York, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Relativitätstheorie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Theoretische Physik
ISBN-10	1-4419-2366-7 / 1441923667
ISBN-13	978-1-4419-2366-0 / 9781441923660
Zustand	Neuware