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This compact guide presents the key features of General Relativity, to support and
supplement the presentation in mainstream, more comprehensive undergraduate
textbooks, or as a recap of essentials for graduate students pursuing more advanced
studies. It helps students plot a careful path to understanding the core ideas and basic
techniques of differential geometry, as applied to General Relativity, without
overwhelming them. While the guide doesn’t shy away from necessary technicalities,
it emphasizes the essential simplicity of the main physical arguments. Presuming a
familiarity with Special Relativity (with a brief account in an appendix), it describes
how general covariance and the equivalence principle motivate Einstein’s theory of
gravitation. It then introduces differential geometry and the covariant derivative as the
mathematical technology which allows us to understand Einstein’s equations of
General Relativity. The book is supported by numerous worked examples and
exercises, and important applications of General Relativity are described in an
appendix.
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course since 2002. He was educated at Edinburgh and Cambridge ) ⁔ 樊 niversities, and
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