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- Title Essential Relativity
- Author W. Rindler
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1St
- Pages 286
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Springer, New York, NY
- Date September 18, 1997
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9783540100904 / 3540100903
- Weight 0.96 lbs (0.44 kg)
- Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.65 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 1.65 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 530.11
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Essential Relativity: Special, General, and Cosmological
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New. In retrospect, the first edition of this book now seems like a mere sketch for a book. The present version is, if not the final product, at least a closer approximation to it. The table of contents may show little change. But that is simply because the original organization of the material has been found satisfactory. Also the basic purpose of the book remains the same, and that is to make relativity come alive conceptually. I have always felt much sym pathy with Richard Courant's maxim (as reported and exemplified by Pascual Jordan) that, ideally, proofs should be reached by comprehension rather than computation. Where computations are necessary, I have tried to make them as transparent as possible, so as not to hinder the progress of comprehension. Among the more obvious changes, this edition contains a new section on Kruskal space, another on the plane gravitational wave, and a third on linearized general relativity; it also contains many new exercises, and two appendices: one listing…
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