Applied General Relativity: Theory and Applications in Astronomy, Celestial Mechanics and Metrology

In the late 20^th and beginning 21^st century high—precision astronomy, positioning and metrology strongly rely on general relativity. Supported by exercises and solutions this book offers graduate students and researchers entering those fields a self—contained and exhaustive but accessible treatment of applied general relativity. The book is written in a homogenous (graduate level textbook) style allowing the reader to understand the arguments step by step. It first introduces the mathematic...