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Title: Exploring Black Holes: Introduction to General Relativity by Edwin F. Taylor, John Archibald Wheeler ISBN: 0-201-38423-X Publisher: Benjamin/Cummings Pub. Date: 12 July, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $37.33 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.86 (7 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: well worth it
Comment: this is a nice book that allows one to approach general realtivity with somewhat rusty math. One should read the special relativty book by the same authors first though.
Rating: 5
Summary: Terrific - but not easy
Comment: As other reviewers have said, Taylor and Wheeler accomplish something marvelous (and by conventional wisdom impossible), making a non-trivial portion of general relativity accessible to physics undergraduates. But be warned that "accessible" does not mean easy! A good background in special relativity is essential, for example from the authors' earlier book Spacetime Physics. Beyond that, readers must be prepared for convoluted reasoning and heavy duty algebra in some parts of the book, covering the more esoteric optical effects of black holes and the effects of rotation. It was an effort for me to get through this book - but well worth it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Just wonderful!
Comment: This book is different from every other introduction to general relativity I know. And better. The eminent authors connect geometry directly to physics, bypassing tensors. Curvature in space is detected by very simple length measurements; curvature in time, by the lengthening of periods of oscillations. There are nuggets in almost every page. I loved the demonstration that you don't really need coordinates to describe geometry: the shape of a boat is reconstructed entirely in terms of distances. Their dynamical principle is the maximum proper time principle. The way they derive energy and momentum from this principle is sterling physics. You'll learn a lot of general relativity in this book. Not all of it. But, learning to love it, you'll learn the advanced topics that cannot be treated this way by yourself, in other books. Perhaps in the huge Misner, Thorne, Wheeler.
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Title: Spacetime Physics: Introduction to Special Relativity by Edwin F. Taylor, John Archibald Wheeler ISBN: 0716723271 Publisher: W H Freeman & Co. Pub. Date: April, 1992 List Price(USD): $58.40 |
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Title: Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy by Kip S. Thorne, Frederick Seitz, Stephen Hawking ISBN: 0393312763 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: January, 1995 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: A First Course in General Relativity by Bernard F. Schutz ISBN: 0521277035 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 31 January, 1985 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Gravity: An Introduction to Einstein's General Relativity by James B. Hartle ISBN: 0805386629 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 26 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $58.00 |
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Title: Special Relativity by Anthony Philip French ISBN: 0393097935 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 1968 List Price(USD): $30.20 |
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