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• Title:Gravitation : foundations and frontiers / T. Padmanabhan.
  
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• Author/Creator:Padmanabhan, T. (Thanu), 1957-2021.
  
• Published/Created:Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QC178 .P226 2010
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Links:Donor bookplate
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Gravitation--Textbooks.
  Relativity (Physics)--Textbooks.
  Gravitation--Problems, exercises, etc.
  
• Genre/Form: Textbooks.
  Problems and exercises.
  
• Description:xxviii, 700 pages : ill ; 26 cm.
  
• Summary:"Covering all aspects of gravitation in a contemporary style, this advanced textbook is ideal for graduate students and researchers in all areas of theoretical physics." "The 'Foundations' section develops the formalism in six chapters, and uses it in the next four chapters to discuss four key applications-spherical spacetimes, black holes, gravitational waves and cosmology. The six chapters in the 'Frontiers' section describe cosmological perturbation theory, quantum fields in curved spacetime, and the Hamiltonian structure of general relativity, among several other advanced topics, some of which are covered in-depth for the first time in a textbook." "The modular structure of the book allows different sections to be combined to suit a variety of courses. More than 225 exercises are included to test and develop the reader's understanding. There are also over 30 projects to help readers make the transition from the book to their own original research."--Jacket.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 689-694) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780521882231 (hardback)
  0521882230 (hardback)
  
• Contents:Special relativity
  Scalar and electromagnetic fields in special relativity
  Gravity and spacetime geometry: the inescapable connection
  Metric tensor, geodesics and covariant derivative
  Curvature of spacetime
  Einstein's field equations and gravitational dynamics
  Spherically symmetric geometry
  Black holes
  Gravitational waves
  Relativistic cosmology
  Differential forms and exterior calculus
  Hamitonian structure of general relativity
  Evolution of cosmological perturbations
  Quantum field theory in curved spacetime
  Gravity in higher and lower dimensions
  Gravity as an emergent phenomenon.