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Special relativity in general frames : from particles to astrophysics / Éric Gourgoulhon.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: Graduate texts in physicsPublisher: Heidelberg ; New York : Springer, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: xxx, 784 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9783642372759 (acidfree paper)
Uniform titles:
  • Relativité restreinte. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 530.11 23
LOC classification:
  • QC173.65 .G6813 2013
Contents:
Minkowski spacetime -- Worldlines and proper time -- Observers -- Kinematics 1 : motion with respect to an observer -- Kinematics 2 : change of observer -- Lorentz group -- Lorentz group as a Lie group -- Inertial observers and Poincaré group -- Energy and momentum -- Angular momentum -- Principle of least action -- Accelerated observers -- Rotating observers -- Tensors and alternate forms -- Fields on spacetime -- Integration in spacetime -- Electromagnetic field -- Maxwell equations -- Energy-momentum tensor -- Energy-momentum of the electromagnetic field -- Relativistic hydrodynamics -- What about relativistic gravitation? -- Basic algebra.
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Translation of: Relativité restreinte : des particules à l'astrophysique.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 737-759) and index.

Minkowski spacetime -- Worldlines and proper time -- Observers -- Kinematics 1 : motion with respect to an observer -- Kinematics 2 : change of observer -- Lorentz group -- Lorentz group as a Lie group -- Inertial observers and Poincaré group -- Energy and momentum -- Angular momentum -- Principle of least action -- Accelerated observers -- Rotating observers -- Tensors and alternate forms -- Fields on spacetime -- Integration in spacetime -- Electromagnetic field -- Maxwell equations -- Energy-momentum tensor -- Energy-momentum of the electromagnetic field -- Relativistic hydrodynamics -- What about relativistic gravitation? -- Basic algebra.

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