A textbook for 2nd and 3rd year undergraduate students using the fundamental principle of covariance as a basis for studying classical mechanics, electrodynamics, the special theory of relativity, and the general theory of relativity, before moving on to more advanced topics of field theory, differential forms, and modified theories of gravity.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 1: Coordinate Systems and Vectors
- 2: Tensors
- 3: Classical Covariance
- 4: Special Covariance
- 5: General Covariance
- 6: Physics in curved spacetime
- 7: Riemann and Einstein
- 8: Least action and classical fields
- 9: Differential forms
- 10: Generalizing general relativity