Gravity: An Introduction to Einstein’s General Relativity
Abstract
The aim of this groundbreaking new book is to bring general relativity into the undergraduate curriculum and make this fundamental theory accessible to all physics majors. Using a "physics first" approach to the subject, renowned relativist James B. Hartle provides a fluent and accessible introduction that uses a minimum of new mathematics and is illustrated with a wealth of exciting applications. The emphasis is on the exciting phenomena of gravitational physics and the growing connection between theory and observation. The Global Positioning System, black holes, X-ray sources, pulsars, quasars, gravitational waves, the Big Bang, and the large scale structure of the universe are used to illustrate the widespread role of how general relativity describes a wealth of everyday and exotic phenomena.
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Special relativity is perfectly able to preserve invariance between reference frames accelerating with respect to one another.
“Special relativity is perfectly able to preserve invariance between reference frames accelerating with respect to one another.”
From The Fine-Tuning of the Universe for Intelligent Life (2012) · cites this paper as Hartle (2003)
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The Fine-Tuning of the Universe for Intelligent Life
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Killing Tensor and Carter Constant for Painlevé–Gullstrand Form of Lense–Thirring Spacetime
Baines, J., Berry, T., Simpson, A., & Visser, M. (2021) · Universe · doi:10.3390/universe7120473 · Cited by 27 · see citing works
Painlevé–Gullstrand form of the Lense–Thirring Spacetime
Baines, J., Berry, T., Simpson, A., & Visser, M. (2021) · Universe · doi:10.3390/universe7040105 · Cited by 8 · see citing works
Photonic zitterbewegung and its interpretation
Wang, Z.-Y., Xiong, C.-D., & Qiu, Q. (2012) · Chinese Physics B · doi:10.1088/1674-1056/21/2/020302 · Cited by 1 · see citing works
- Authors
- Hartle, J. B., & Dray, T.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Santa Barbara (US)
- ORCID
- Dray, Tevian
- Venue
- American Journal of Physics
- Published
- 2003-09-11
- Volume
- 71
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 1086-1087
- ISSN
- 0002-9505 (ISSN-L)
- 1943-2909
- OpenAlex
- W1969173702
- Cited by
- 856
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 33 · 2024: 36 · 2023: 46 · 2022: 44 · 2021: 49 · 2020: 39 · 2019: 124 · 2018: 52 · 2017: 36 · 2016: 49 · 2015: 28 · 2014: 39 · 2013: 54 · 2012: 38
- Type
- book review
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- American Journal of Physics (publishedVersion)
- CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Relativity and Gravitational Theory
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
- Keywords
- general relativity, gravitational physics, undergraduate physics education, black holes, gravitational waves, pulsars, quasars, X-ray sources, global positioning system, Big Bang, large-scale structure, theory and observation
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