Gravitation: Foundations and Frontiers

by Thanu Padmanabhan

Book Overview

Covering all aspects of gravitation in a contemporary style, this advanced textbook is ideal for graduate students and researchers in all areas of theoretical physics. The 'Foundation' section develops the formalism in six chapters, and uses it in the next four chapters to discuss four key applications - spherical spacetimes, black holes, gravitational waves and cosmology. The six chapters in the 'Frontier' section describe cosmological perturbation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521882230
• ISBN13: 9780521882231
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 728 Pages
• Weight: 3.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.0" x 9.8"