Carlip, Steven  1953- <br/><br/>
General relativity :  a concise introduction / 
Steven Carlip, The University of California at Davis. 
 - UK:  Oxford University Press,  2019. 
 - xi, 141 pages :  illustrations ;  25 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Gravity as geometry -- Geodesics -- Geodesics in the solar system -- Manifolds and tensors -- Derivatives and curvature -- The Einstein field equations -- The stress-energy tensor -- The weak field approximation -- Gravitational waves -- Black holes -- Cosmology -- The Hamiltonian formalism -- Next steps. 
<br/><br/> This is a short textbook on general relativity and gravitation aimed at readers with a broad range of interests in physics, from cosmology to high energy physics to condensed matter. The approach is "physics first": readers move quickly to the calculation of observational predictions and only then return to mathematical foundations.-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780198822158 (hbk.) 0198822154 (hbk.) 9780198822165 (pbk.) 0198822162 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2018957383 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBB903901  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>019201294  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Relativity (Physics)<br/>Gravitation.<br/>Gravitation.<br/>Relativity (Physics)
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QC173.55  / .C37 2019 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>530.11  / C282