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Exploring Black Holes: Introduction to General Relativity
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Release NotesA concise, direct examination of general relativity and black holes, Exploring
Black Holes provides tools that motivate tools that motivate readers to become
active participants in carrying out their own investigations about curved
spacetime near earth and black holes. The authors use calculus and algebra to
make general relativity accessible, and use quotes from well-known
personalities, including Einstein, to offer further insight. Five chapters
introduce basic theory. The book also includes seven projects regarding the
analysis of major applications. Discussions provide the background needed to
carry out projects. The book's projects guide readers as they fill in steps,
compute outcomes and carry out their own investigations. For astronomers,
mathematicians and people interested in learning about the relativity of black
holes.

Table of Contents

1. Speeding (Review of Special Relativity).
2. Curving (Spacetime Near a Non-Rotating Black Hole).
Project A: The Global Positioning System.
3. Plunging (Diving Toward a Black Hole).
Project B: Inside The Black Hole.
4. Orbiting (Zooming Around a Black Hole).
Project C: Advance of Mercury's Perihelion.
5. Seeing (Bending and Orbiting Light).
Project Einstein Rings.
Project E: Light Slowed Near Sun.
Project F: The Spinning Black Hole.
Project G: The Friedmann Universe.
Readings in General Relativity.
Glossaries of Symbols and Terms.
Index.
Selected Formulas.
Selected Physical Constants.

Product Details

* ISBN: 020138423X
* ISBN-13: 9780201384239
* Format: Textbook Hardcover, 352pp
* Publisher: Benjamin Cummings
* Pub. Date: July 2000
* Edition Number: 1
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