This undergraduate textbook provides a simple, concise introduction to
tensor algebra and analysis, as well as special and general
relativity. With a plethora of examples, explanations, and exercises,
it forms a well-rounded didactic text that will be useful for any
related course. The book is divided into three main parts, all based
on lecture notes that have been refined for classroom teaching over
the past two decades. Part I provides students with a comprehensive
overview of tensors. Part II links the very introductory first part
and the relatively advanced third part, demonstrating the important
intermediate-level applications of tensor analysis. Part III contains
an extended discussion of general relativity, and includes material
useful for students interested primarily in quantum field theory and
quantum gravity. Tailored to the undergraduate, this textbook offers
explanations of technical material not easily found or detailed
elsewhere, includingan understandable description of Riemann normal
coordinates and conformal transformations. Future theoretical and
experimental physicists, as well as mathematicians, will thus find it
a wonderful first read on the subject.
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ISBN
9783030268954
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Springer Nature
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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