Introduction to Tensor Calculus, Relativity and Cosmology

Introduction to Tensor Calculus, Relativity and CosmologyThis elementary introduction pays special attention to aspects of tensor calculus and relativity that students tend to find most difficult. Its use of relatively unsophisticated mathematics in the early chapters allows readers to develop their confidence within the framework of Cartesian coordinates before undertaking the theory of tensors in curved spaces and its application to general relativity theory. Topics include the special principle of

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