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Lecture Notes on General Relativity by S. Hollands and Ko Sanders

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Lecture Notes on General Relativity by S. Hollands and Ko Sanders

Lecture Notes on General Relativity by S. Hollands and Ko Sanders

These lecture notes on General Relativity intend to give an introduction to all aspects of Einstein’s theory: ranging form the conceptual via the mathematical to the physical. Topics covered includes: Special Relativity, Time and Space in Classical Mechanics, Electromagnetism and Poincar´e Invariance, Spacetime in Special Relativity, Mathematics of Minkowski Spacetime, Mechanics in Special Relativity, Observer Dependence and Paradoxes, General Relativity, Applications of General Relativity, Cosmological Solutions to Einstein’s Equation, Black Holes, Linearized Gravity and Gravitational Radiation, The Global Positioning System.

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