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General Relativity and Cosmology

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Author(s): George Cuncliffe McVittie
Series: The international astrophysics series, 4
Edition: 2
Publisher: Chapman & Hall
Year: 1965

Language: English
Pages: xii+241
City: London

Editors' note
Preface to the first edition
Preface to the second edition
Contents
1 Introduction
2 The tensor calculus and Riemannian geometry
3 Newtonian mechanics and special relativity
4 The principles of general relativity
5 The Schwarzschild space-time
6 Approximations to Einstein's equations and Newtonian gas-dynamics
7 Special cases of Newtonian gas-dynamics
8 Theory of uniform model universes
9 Observational cosmology
Appendix
References and notes
Index