Understanding General Relativity

General Relativity Lecture Notes by Ulrich Sperhake

The contents of this lecture notes are : Preliminaries, Differential geometry, Physical laws in curved spacetimes, The Schwarzschild solution and classic tests of GR, Cosmology, Singularities and geodesic incompleteness, Linearized theory and gravitational waves.

Author(s): Ulrich Sperhake

153 Pages

General Relativity by Chris Blake

This book discusses one of the crowning achievements of modern physics: the General Theory of Relativity (GR). Major topics covered includes: Special Relativity, Index Notation, Electromagnetism, Accelerated Motion, Equivalence Principle, Curved Space and Metrics, Geodesics, Tensors, Black Holes, Einstein Equation and Cosmology.

Author(s): Chris Blake

NA Pages

Theory of Special Relativity by Nadia L. Zakamska

This note covers the following topics: Principle of Relativity, Lorentz transform, Simultaneous events, causally connected events, Addition of velocities, 4-vectors: velocity, energy-momentum, Energy-momentum of photon, Doppler effect, aberration, Relativistic dynamics, Electromagnetic fields in different frames.

Author(s): Nadia L. Zakamska

101 Pages

The principle of relativity

This book covers the following topics: The Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, Principle of Relativity, The Generalised Principle of Relativity.

Author(s): Albert Einstein

272 Pages