About the Book
This comprehensive student manual has been designed to accompany the leading textbook by Bernard Schutz, A First Course in General Relativity, and uses detailed solutions, cross-referenced to several introductory and more advanced textbooks, to enable self-learners, undergraduates and postgraduates to master general relativity through problem solving. The perfect accompaniment to Schutz's textbook, this manual guides the reader step-by-step through over 200 exercises, with clear easy-to-follow derivations.
Key Features
- Detailed solutions to almost half of Schutz's exercises.
- 125 new supplementary problems that address the subtle points of each chapter.
- References to other mathematics and physics textbooks to help fill in the gaps needed to learn relativity.
- Includes a Maple Worksheet with plots and numerical and symbolic computations.
- Appendix with the metric, Christoffel symbols etc. for important spacetimes and other key mathematical results, likes series expansions, that are used repeatedly throughout the text.