Exploring Black Holes: Introduction to General Relativity / Edition 1

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A 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.

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Taylor (MIT) and Wheeler (Princeton) use metrics rather than Einstein's field equations to introduce students with modest mathematics backgrounds (elementary calculus and algebra) to concepts of relativity. Focusing always on encouraging curiosity (the inside cover contains a long list of questions such as "what does it feel like to fall toward a black hole"), the authors provide tools for answering questions and carrying out calculations about curved spacetime near Earth and black holes. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780201384239
  • Publisher: Addison-Wesley
  • Publication date: 7/12/2000
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 352
  • Sales rank: 1,270,375
  • Product dimensions: 8.07 (w) x 9.95 (h) x 0.74 (d)

Meet the Author

Exploring Black Holes: An Introduction to General Relativity was written by Oersted Medal winner Edwin Taylor and foremost relativist John Archibald Wheeler.

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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 D: 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.

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