Core Principles of Special and General Relativity (Hardcover)

Relativity: A theory of space, time, and gravity

Basic special relativity

Lorentz transformation, I

Geometry of Lorentz invariance

Tensors on flat spaces

Lorentz transformation, II

Particle dynamics

Covariant electrodynamics

Energy-momentum of fields

Relativistic hydrodynamics

Equivalence of local gravity and acceleration

Acceleration in special relativity

Tensors on manifolds

Differential geometry

General relativity

The Schwarzschild metric

Physical effects of Schwarzschild spacetime

Linearized gravity

Relativistic cosmology

Appendix A: Invariance of the wave equation

Appendix B: The Doppler effect

Appendix C: Topics in linear algebra

Appendix D: Topics in classical mechanics

Appendix E: Photon and particle orbits